Admittedly I did not look at the entire thread, so this might have been answered but, do you have a faucet or other way I can get started with the coin? I will be putting some BTC into it, but right now my budget it tied up mostly with Energycoin.

 I want to hold this coin and watch what happens with it but need to get started.

 Yeah, but anyone who tries my way may still need a rescan of the blockchain. I found this out after looking to see that while the bootstrap works, the balance on my wallet was 0.

Ok, so, I had this error:
Error initializing database environment /
Users/s3v3n/Library/Application Support/
MintCoin! To recover, BACKUP THAT
DIRECTORY, then remove everything from it
except for wallet.dat.

 Here's what fixed it for me.

 I cleared the mint directory and then put the downloaded blk0001.dat and txlvldb folder along with my wallet.dat file in the mint directory and then fired it up. Worked like a charm.  

 Edit: Just to be clear, when I said I put the downloaded blk0001.dat and txlvldb folder, i am talking about the bootstrap download. All you need from it is those files,

 Arrrg Bittrex is still playing hard to get. This is still the status.

 Blocked    ENRG    1076204    0    885 minutes    04/21/2015 11:08:24

 It's ok for now, but I need to consolidate 2 wallets and I need to start trading again in the next day or so. I want to refresh my backups and add a new coin ( Bitseeds ) but I want to do it one time when I have all my wallets and coins in order.

 Seems Bittrex has a blockchain issue with Energycoin. I am unable to transfer to or out of the exchange and the wallet status is "blocked" on Bittrex.

 Uggg. This is not fun.

Ok, I figured this out and it may have settled down now to the point where it wont happen, but......

 I seem to be floating between the active ( desirable ) Blockchain and another fork of the blockchain. I watched it change at least one time and confirmed something was up when I did a hash check on a random block and found 2 results on the same block shortly after noticing that my client suddenly went out of sink by 11k blocks.

 If it should happen again, Ill see what I can do about getting a screenshot.

 Just to be clear though, as of right now Im on the right chain.

Edit: Everything seems to have settled down.I added more nodes Jan suggested above, I previously had only one "approved" node to get me started. I currently should be acting as a node.

ok, got everything working and now, as of a few mins ago I am stuck at this block 1059795.

 I confirmed I was on the right block and even successfully sent 2 energy to Bittrex to test. Now, Im just plane stuck. seems to have happened during a stake.

 Ok, never mind it did move forward but I may still have a situation where the blockchain stays out of sync. Again, all was fine before I staked.

 Here you go. Reward people with energy for these types of systems:

http://www.livingmachines.com/About-Living-Machine/Water-Reuse/Reuse-Explained.aspx

 Have a certain amount of energy given to those who reclaim water with this system. Reward a certain amount for every Liter/Gallon of water reclaimed and have that energycoin spendable on clean energy hardware like solar or wind.

I simply can not get it to use the right fork. I am guessing that I am simply having problems with the client using the new config information. I don't really know.

 

 So we are running a chain? I stopped my wallet when it was clear that I had gone over the last official block. So, if we are running, then how do I make sure I am on the chain I need to be?

 Well, at least you get a laugh out of energycoin. That means it's not useless. lol.

 Now, as to your rant that no one is doing anything.. Don't be so sure. I am developing ideas to use Energycoin for at least 3 different projects related to solar generation. Im not in a hurry to implement my ideas just yet because I think Energycoin has a future and I think it will be around when I want to use it.  I also continue to use my hardware to support the network and that investment will likely grow over time. 

 As for the tree registry thing. Well, I don't fully understand it and I do not fully understand if it is meant for just a certain geographic area. I have not asked because I am pretty sure that the idea is not useful in my area ( Canada ) but if it is meant to be global, then, yeah, I can see getting off my butt and doing something with it.

 I never support things based on other peoples reasons. Investors would be great, but if they do not see a future in this coin, that dose not effect me in the slightest.

 What strikes me about your post is when they said the speed of sound could NEVER be passed. Guess what.. Humanity now goes fasted then the speed of sound at will around the world any time the need arises. It will likely be the same for the speed of light, but who knows.

 BTW, I invest in many coins including BTC, so taking time to invest in Energy is no big stretch for me and it's something I believe in. Dose not matter if no one else ever will, it only matters that I will continue to support it.

 "If you think it through you can see it: Euros, dollars and all the other legal tender around the world are only worth because we all agree they are ... and as such, we accept them as trading tokens and carry out hour lives using it.
In that sense, *any* cryptocurrency can become useful. Hell, *anything* can become useful as a trading token - just go through history and check everything that has been used as money throughout humanity's journey Smiley
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 Yeah, you should see me explain to people that money has no real value and watch their face contort in all kinds of strange ways. There is actually a need for Crypto as currency and that need is being seen by more people now then in the recent past. So, the idea that the blockchain is the only part of Bitcoin ( or any coin ) that has value is hard to foresee. I think both the token aspect and Technological aspect of Crypto will live on into the future.

 Also, as much as some people would scratch their heads at this idea, there is a good possibility that the US government ( for various reasons ) was initially the creator of Crytocurrency/Blockchain Tech. Think about it, the US knows it's own currency may be in trouble one day and they decide to create a currency online that they can appear to be distant from ( so as not to cause panic on the Dollar )  something they can grow a user base around without undue worry about the dollar and then, if the worst happens and all has gone well, there is already an established base of users and businesses accepting the currency.

 I grant you that the above is my own personal "maybe" and only one possibility out of many, but I do not see the government going to war on Bitcoin or even cash. I see a diversification of something that used to be strictly central and that is giving many people who are established in the old system lots of trouble in understanding.

 The take away is really that what we are eventually going to see is something hybrid between central and decentralized monetary systems and in getting there, there will likely be room for even more "Altcoins" then there are right now.   No one can argue though that blockchain tech is not highly innovative and disruptive, because it is both.

 I do not agree that Bitcoin will be the only coin of any value in the future. Even in the event of implementation of side chains. In fact that tecnical failure that Energycoin has suffered points to a need for a diverse crypto space that can serve specialized markets.  Though most people in the Bitcoin space like to think that Bitcoin is now beyond certain modes of technical failure that would be hard to correct, most of those thoughts are dead wrong. Every technological thing can break and in times of a broken Bitcoin, other coins would be useful, even if only temporarily.

 I think you'll find a use case for using a separate coin for energy and energy conservation, things that Bitcoin was not explicitly deigned to do.

I have same block as has been listed here.

 Agreed Thank you sir.

Is there a download for where we can get your local copy of the chain? Im not sure how we could compare blockchain info if we cant see what you have. I might be missing something or misinterpreting what you want though so Im sorry if I misunderstand.

 I had a look at bitrex to see if they have the wallet online or if they listed it as a problem. Indeed, the wallet is listed as "blocked" ( no activity for 60 mins or more ). I thought to check this just in case the coin was hijacked somehow and still being traded on a fork.  

 Correct me if Im wrong,but this coin has hardcoded nodes dose it not? In other words nodes that are coded into the client for clients to use to Sync..I know that you can add nodes, but if you have hard coded nodes and something happens to them, what would be the result?  could something like this happen if those nodes where compromised in some way?

Next Block: d74b1e8f3d79a68621fb26dd2825d09e19d87caf1d37cdb95f335c09aded212e
a65c806d7e3e49308f3a40cd018a77840259d855388f8b12a14f0c7605187779
02ae652cf94bcc70ab362fd93d054f01dd77b99a6c3775c41fe256961a0a508f
d84ce9e56a57cc99aaec3d6f9a100301c1aa59055ebee2349bbc299f0d01c524
6cc30174f5740641adea1a9daa484c7fa38a40f6971335fe20c03b842c0ad110
ec8ef619483c1c49d79a419fc035a47636b5819f4d02a71394a405ee8e039e4d
dbec3f6f1305c9d11a54505eb5f7401805385aae1386e701d0d0ff7f5e846143
Height: 1051199

From what I see on other blocks, this is not right. All the other blocks I look at, there is only one line in the Next Block. This one has 7 lines.

 Before I put my 2 cents in I need to ask if there is a way that we can get the current chain moving by creating nodes that agree to start talking to one another starting 2 blocks  back on the current chain. essentially Im asking if the network can be "rebooted" by forking the current chain.   It is unfortunate that I have very little programming background and this situation might poke me to start changing that.

 I am looking at this as a great opportunity. Even if we cant recover the current situation, we can take what we learn here and build something new that perhaps includes what we would have liked the coin to be to begin with. I would support a new coin or other situation that helped us get by this but i think it's important to learn what happened here so that anything we do after this includes the ability to keep something like this from happening again or to fix it if it dose happen again.  I plan to do what I can to support things but my limited programming ability is going to leave me out of the development side of things for now.

 I suspect that this might have been an attack because after looking at the chain explorer there is multiple "next block" hashs where I notice that many times there  is only one next hash line associated with a block.

 What ever happened, deliberate or not, I think if we could start processing one block back from the current stuck block and move forward things would likely start moving again. problem is, if it was an attack it can keep happening if we do not understand it.    

 Is there a way to see what node/client processed a transaction? I would love to be able to see more detail on what happened with that hash rate spike. 

 Maybe someone could answer me this question but.... Why would the below happen on the Enrgy Network.

Ok, so,here is the last block that seems to be recorded. [1051200   2015-03-27 16:31:34] Now, the block we are all stuck on.[1051199   2015-03-27 15:04:04]. Notice that this last block is generated nearly 90 mins after the block we are all stuck on? Up to that point it seemed like we where generating multiple blocks just in 1 mins time.

 It's like right after block 1051199 the network just stops for near 90 mins and then block 1051200 gets processed and added to the chain. I have a real need to know what really happened in that near 90 mins between blocks because thats likely where our collective shit luck began.