Oh yes.  I also parked the site.  I will have it back up and visible today.  Talk about a hibernation!

Well this is pleasant to see.  So many people kept this coin humming along in the corridors of miners off and on when it made economical sense.  EarthCoin officially reached its two year mile stone on December 21, 2015 and now we can see what two years of adoption can do.  Of course most of the trading is in China now but there are no borders for EarthCoin, Country of Trade is irrelevant.

Kudos to the ones that kept this alive in the doledrums.  I also bought along the way as recently as October and November at a few satoshis for crying out loud.  Stay realistic here however in my opinion.  It would be very easy for EarthCoin to reach an $8M valuation and spread out its footprint, but be realistic in knowing that these are still deflationary assets.  They spend very long periods of time decreasing in price and very short periods of time going straight up 1000's of percent.  Completely opposite to the inflationary ponzi scheme we all subscribe to in real life.  This is EarthCoin's first bump along its road to adoption.

Wonderful to see positive energy and enthusiasm!

Cheers!

Never buy things that are falling. EVER.

Only buy things that are hitting new highs.  Go buy the DOW Index or the USD.

If BTC breaks $1100, sure buy some.  Until then I would do nothing.

Ironically, never short Bitcoin

I'm just glad we are not Ripple with the scam Macaleb and the others are pulling in trying to be transparent haha.  He needs some capital for other things.  I am pretty proud of EarthCoin and won't be selling mine.  Well I guess there is a price if someone offers me $10M USD?

I feel bad for the community who have to spin this one and give Jed their money while he leaves them.

Hahaha, I can not use 'The Force' and control markets favourably.  That unfortunately is up to fate and time and luck!  Behind the scenes in skype it is stuff like this:

we could release a client compiled against the fixed version of openssl
L - i have a working 0.8 version here: XXXXXXXXXXXX
L - you should be able to compile it via gitian
L - i would be glad if you can help me fixing the crash after the first message on windows


<<< we could release a client compiled against the fixed version of opensslI think you should.
L -  sent debug.log ***
L - there is the log file, S
L - for the 0.8 client i agree. for the current client it depends how difficult it is.
L - i will have a look
L - S, i've also setup a testnet faucet: XXXXXXXXXXX
L - works only on 0.8 though
L - the 0.8 client is already compiled against openssl's fixed version. thought i didn't finish it but aparently i did: 2014-04-13 23:23:21 Using OpenSSL version OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014
L - prior to the 0.8 release we should release EarthCoin 1.2.1 with new checkpoints. we can incorporate the new openssl version there. but spending time on this will delay progress on 0.8
L -  sent debug.log ***
L - and S, use http://XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/ currently the vps itself mines on testnet but it only does it when at least one other node is connected
L - takes about 5-10 minutes per block

People are working my friend - all for you with out any reward what so ever.  Please tell us how you have been providing content and effort as we are.  I am not trying to be smart or arrogant and so it is difficult to relay my question over text.  I sincerely would like to know if you have had any progress yourself?

My inboxes are filled up daily with all kinds of things and efforts and the price still drops - that is life I guess..But no one has left you.

Remember my friend there is a big misconception in the community about decentralized exchanges or mechanisms.  The vehicle can ALWAYS be a decentralized mechanism but the mode of connectivity must ALWAYS be centralized.  The idea is astounding and it will undoubtedly be the future but it must be administered by a central authority.  Nothing will be 100% tamper proof however this model will reduce fraud ALOT!  Each person's ID just as voting works now would be required to vote.  Again this is not where most of the fraud occurs.

The distributed asset ledger of votes would be regarded by all and when real time forensics in instituted fraud would be greatly reduced.  The future is definitely here.

OMG perfect.  I deleted that post at the behest of another EarthCoin user that called you a lost cause and wished to stay positive.

Your seemingly intelligent posts have implications in fraudulent behaviour my friend.  Trying to create misdirection, deception and fear through your dogma is not working.  In fact you have alienated yourself from everyone already.  I enjoy tellinng you to go fuck yourself quite honestly.  Your just a punk kid, a nobody with nothing but 72 keys on a keyboard.  I can tell you have never accomplished ANYTHING in your life.  It is quite obvious through the implication in your rhetoric.

I tried to discount your non-sense recognizing you as a highly functioning fella with some form of retardation and offer you some respect.  Now I would rescind that privilege I have offered you.  

Filling up pages with things that are open ended is just a way to spread discontent to the community.  ESPECIALLY FROM A POSITION OF NOT HAVING ANY EARTHCOINS IN THE GAME!  Seriously guy, you should seek some form of counselling.  It will help in your everyday life that I am sure suffers immensely probably with out your own recognition.

What I KNOW IS FACT - no investigation required, that ANY and ALL coins I have ever possessed or have been given are COMPLETELY accounted for and easily disseminated.  I KNOW ALL people involved with the project are ACTIVE and working forward.

What I KNOW about you is that you have proposed a misdirected question which yields more misdirected answers, this propagates your cause into perpetuity.  It is an wonderful tactic if you are 15 or 16 years old.  Anyone of any calibur, sees through that.  Enjoy yourself because you are entertaining to say the least.  I do hope you will never leave the board, the truth always wins in the end buddy and I will be embarrassed for you.  EAC will be here long long long after you are gone.

Why don't we have that vote?  Does anyone care to set that up?  I am sure you will discover what the community thinks of your exhausting audit of what I have determined through your own rhetoric to be 2.8% of the pre-mine equaling $7729 USD right now.  Please enlighten us with your exhausting investigative skills to discover this incredible injustice, that will probably turn out one day that John or Norb or somebody gave thousands of coins to followers at the beginning or who knows.

I post here each and everytime and consistently discredit the illusion you are putting forth under your guise of righteousness.

I am astounded at the 'effort' you have put into your quest.  I don't personally work for .50 cents an hour so I would not be able to do that kind of research but thankfully your time is worthless to you and you feel obliged to 'help' the community.  Do you think anyone believes anything you are saying?  You are seriously cute. *Big hug*

Comment as a true statesman.  I have requested the same of the undertones of the speak.  I can not stop some fellas from their incessant attacks, you can change an idea but not a belief they say.  And there are some, through their fantasy and entertainment, find it valuable for the community  to have the choice to join their fantasy and entertainment.  Unfortunately some of them can speak in full sentences and it has an ability to captivate an audience through the merit of the speak but when looking from above in a realistic manner, you hit the nail on the head with respect to what is going on here.  It is ALL positive from my perspective.  20 people working behind the scenes feverishly with ALL kinds of directions and content and not just brainstormig - actual calls to action in a bunch of directions.

This level of coordinated drive could have never occurred at the beginning.  It required more than three people and the learning curve was steep and unforgiving haha.  I have to say I am re-inspired.  The attacks can be draining and it did cause considerable decrease in morale and effort put forth.  That the coin has survived all this attack and has grown in its leadership 10x is a testament to its appeal.  It will definitely have a future and I personally see it climbing the ranks again.  I do think a resting state for EAC as determined by USD value creation is around 200 satoshi.  That is obviously my personal opinion...

All I know is when I get PM'd by some friends who have purchased some EAC and have accumulated paper losses that they even feel some pressure building, it is a good sign.

Behind the scenes I see 20 talented, DEDICATED people, developers, marketing, strategy, long term vision all working together.  The forums of course do not see this but when I have 933 msgs to catch up yesterday it seems positive to me!

The other benefit is that we have control of 'some' coins - for ongoing development but it has been reduced in its impact by fellas like ATX Silver with ULTRA-Long Term Vision that probably rival our basket.  People in his position are now realizing how they make that basket more valuable is not by hoarding, it is by putting it to work and distributing it and informing other people, so i do expect community assets to grow to go towards some serous projects.  I personally am trying to fund one with real dollars right now and we are accumulating some developers to put to work on it.  As soon as
I know more, the community will know more.

Yes did you like that!?  I was requested to chill by a nice guy who PM'd me and it made sense so I obliged! Hahaha.  Oh mannnnnn....

Cooler heads prevail.

Nice to see you chime in John!  I am certain the community is inspired to hear that as am I.  Although not much is seen on the bitcointalk.org chats there are 10 people in skype chats working away everyday.  Everyone has really stepped it up a notch and things have been, well, inspiring.  Irrelevant of the pricing of EAC, everyone has been putting mucho effort forth and we have developed some incredible partners and content on its way.  I emailed you at 163.com

I KNOW John did not dump his coins, but for the vultures that were out for blood and no way to verify that, it was the only thing that seemed to satisfy their thirst for blood.  I wished to ignore them but I was overruled.  Everyone that has put work into this coin has NOT dumped I am certain of this to the deepest parts of belief.

However miners have bills to pay and if it wasn't for them there would be no hash rate.  It is not an evil thing, it is the rule of law of crypto currency.  Our job is to find the buyers who believe that EarthCoin has a durable brand and future based on the conversation, dialogue, creativity and content creation, such that those buyers satisfy the hunger for the miners and provide a trajectory that looks enticing for a speculator. I (we) have failed up to now in that task but NO ONE is quitting for ANYTHING.

We would all like you back in some capacity buddy even if it were to listen into the Skype chats which are 10 people deep with many sub groups.  Send me a skype request, I would be humbled.  All the best!

I remember the Byrne days well while managing a fund hehe.  He was being shorted to the high heavens.  Naked shorts and he attacked Wall Street in general because of it.  Good for him.  Must feel good.

Hey I think there was again some misdirection with the rumour and conjecture hehe.  It is ripe in this community.  Detectives that really are not detectives.  I know Norb of course, and on the splash page he decided to place EAC/USD or something like that and so rumour began hehe.  There was no plan for Incryptex to be an exchange for EAC.  We know one another.  I am simply an investor in it that's all.

He did and we have spoke.  But an idea is an idea.  I asked him for some structure.  Who uploads the images, and sources them?  How is it administered such that he/she is not telling their friends what the answer is?  who doles out the prize each week, how much is the prize.  How is it determined?  Time and date stamped?

An idea is great.  It requires administration and execution now.  If you can put that together we of course would implement it.  It is a great idea to expand the brand and include new people.  Any idea like this is great.

Hey what do you think about this?

https://altoutlet.com/eac

Anyway I am sad to see that John has left us officially.  I personally do not believe he has dumped his coins, he has always done what he said he would do and I have no reason not to believe him.  Him and Norb did have a big disagreement that could not be resolved and that is about the end of it.  There is no doubt he left us a great coin.  Its' future is not yet written by a long shot.

Also I have been advised to be a little more compassionate with respect to my temperment on these boards.  I am a tough love kind of fella by nature.  I despise cry babies.  If my arm got cut off on a train track, I would pick it up and try to walk to the nearest hospital to see if they could sew it back on!  I would not WHIMPER OR COMPLAIN!  I would try to FIX IT!

Anyway that attitude does not seem to cut it here.  So I will refrain from the smart ass commentary as best as possible.  I have become very frustrated with the short sighted ideas and attacks on the coin.  There are many people sacrificing their time on this project when we could ALL be doing much better things.  We receive no reward, no benefit other than to promote an ideology for everyone.  So even if we feel someone is not doing what we think they should be doing maybe you also can be a little more considerate towards the community.  We are all only here for another 23,000 days for most of us before this life is over, How much are one of those days worth to you?

My advisors are correct.  Nothing is solved playing the negativity game.  Positivity can sure grow on itself however and I would fall over to see it on EarthCoin.  So I apologize for my rants and you will not see that anymore.

Legionairrez's idea is not bad.  I would like to extrapolate this a little and possibly add a "game" to the splash page.  Indoctrinate people about EarthCoin and its possible benefits, possibly by placing images like he has suggested of global marketplaces and ports, markets and trade centers?  We could give away 10,000 EAC a week for the winner who guess the image...

Or have some kind of contest to show EAC being used in commerce through a picture....I have no idea what it would be.

But the concept is clear.  An indoctrination of EAC's potential in a fun and recurring theme.  Something to attract EAC followers with rewards every week to spread out the ownership of EAC.  If I could put flappy birds on the main page with EAC prizes I would do that - but you get idea.  Any thoughts?  Any leaders?

No problem.  I have lost about $8,000 USD in EAC I purchased at way higher prices hehe.  No harm no foul, it is all a learning experience for the ENTIRE community but I am still here an so is Norb and we simply have a passion to create something that's all.

We are learning it is a very difficult task to find true team leaders capable of sacrificing their time in life to promote EarthCoin and spread its usability.  It is happening and the crisis has spun out some real team leaders like Sprocket, CryptoZark, Centurion, KB, Tamb, ATX, Norb, as well as our friendly organic grower in Australia!  There are even a few more and I apologize for not having the names on the fly - but that is even part of the problem.  One of the things I'd like to accomplish with Zark this weekend is to delegate some leadership posts to people willing to take them on.

Now come on though folks, whatever your push for EAC is, it has to be fun for you because God knows it is not about the money right now haha.  I am a true believer in pushing forward with effort and never quitting and the reward will come naturally.  It is a wonderful feeling when that happens and I have been involved in many projects that have provided that euphoria when they yield.  I do not believe in "no" or "can't do that."  Just one additional step after the other and *poof* you wake up one day and there is reward.

Hahaha, you guys are pathetic.  If someone can't hold your hand for three seconds you become rabid.  I have no patience or empathy for that.

As for John I think it would be a good idea to hear what he has to say.  He is one hell of a coder and programmer and has a great passion for the community.  Maybe someone else other than us can have a convo with him, but he has gone silent on the Skype chat and has become Satoshi now.

Oh and regarding the article, of course it was put into proper English!  Real investigative skills there - you guys make me howl!! Haahah

Hats off to you buddy and I have been waiting for that fella to come around that rivals the initial float!  Just as we see having 100 million coins, its value can only be increased by strategically giving 50 million away towards projects such that remaining 50 are now worth 150 in future terms.  Sooner or later I knew there would be people that have amassed this wealth and I was praying they would be pro-active.

With out "the president" of earth coin and someone with that vision it would be very hard to grow this coins base.  I look forward to the vote