EMC2 Hard Fork date set in stone

EMC2 has been ready for Hard Fork for more than two weeks now. But since we were trying to fork Wormhole out everyone had to update at the same epoche, in between two Wormholes.

We tried to do it sooner in two attempts, to loop with everyone involved, but in practice some businesses move faster than others, and such approach might appear as not what community wants. We have shown flexibility, it is time to show strong will.

So we decided to set Hard Fork date in stone, but to give enough time to the world to prepare. Here we are:

Target HF Block: 1699157

Approximate HF date: 2017/12/7

Countdown: http://hfcountdown.emc2.foundation/

Please update your EMC2 nodes with our new code, that can be found on our official GitHub repo:

GitHub: https://github.com/emc2foundation/einsteinium

Branch: master_EMC2_HardFork (default)

Wallet version: 0.13.48.0

Pool operators, exchanges and other businesses are notified, and some already performed update.

Wallets will be available for download at the beginning of the next week.
Newsletters are at the door.

Team is focused now on EMC2 applications, and will give update on that in coming days.

Thank you for your patience,

Emc2 Dev Team

Update on EMC2 Hard Fork

Update on EMC2 HardFork

Shortly, 
Coding is done - EMC2 hard Fork code (ver 0.13.4.0) is ready and checked in our official GitHub repo: https://github.com/emc2foundation/einsteinium
Testing is done - new wallet ver 0.13.4.0 passed all our test, both autmatad and manual.
Wallets (Windows and Mac) are built and ready to be published.

Communication with major players is active: 
Bittrex - confirmed immediate update and they are witing on our final signal.
H2C mining pool- confirmed update, waiting on our green light. 
Supernova mining pool - is informed, they did not respond back, but since they are long time EMC2 supporter we do not expect any issues.

Cryptopia - is responsive, no issues with them.
3rd party - serivces are informed and will follow.

Poloniex - We are in daily touch with Poloniex via Skype, and this is a big improvement since the summer.
We submitted wallet upgrade ticket and it is escalated to their wallet engineers.
We are waiting on response, and will post update as soon as we get.
They have to follow internal procedures.


IMPORTANT: Even code is ready and publicly available, please DO NOT UPGRADE nodes YET, till we sync completely with Poloniex. 

Thank you for patience, we are getting close.

EMC2 Dev Team

Wormhole October 8th

During this wormhole hash rate fluctuation may occur. In order to keep everything secured Einsteinium Foundation advised exchanges to either temporarily disable deposits and withdrawals or raise the confirmations threshold to 1200.

We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

We are still working hard for upcoming hard fork targeted on the block 1640530 which will occur approximately on October 25th.

EMC2 HF Statement

Code change that is removing Wormhole functionality and reducing total coin supply is ready for release.

This change is simple in terms of coding but complex in terms of testing and deployment.

As EMC2 coin is available on some of the biggest exchanges and 3rd party services, all of them must update during the same time frame.

We are working with them on defining a maintenance window for upgrade.

At the same time we are also doing extensive blockchain testing.

Final test results and confirmation from exchanges are needed before the final push.

We are getting very close release but the HF initially scheduled for October 6th must be rescheduled to insure network security and exchange synchronicity.

Next target is block 1640530 which will occur approximately on October 25th.
The countdown is coming.

We will share more information as soon as we can.

EMC2 Dev Team.

Einsteinium Is Recognized As The Cryptocurrency Of The Future

On 27th September, one of the biggest IT conference "Znamo da mozemo" on Balkan was held in Belgrade. The main theme of the conference was to showcase the results of the growing IT and startup scene in Serbia.

One of the sponsors of the event was Novak Djokovic foundation as well as one of the biggest gaming companies in the Europe, Nordeus.

Since cryptocurrencies are part of the IT and startup ecosystem, some interesting facts were presented. 

During this year, in Serbia only, companies raised more than $70m by ICO's. In the context of real life use cases of the various cryptocurrencies, special mention went to Einsteinium which was recognized as the cryptocurrency of the future for scientific community especially in developing countries.

Einsteinium Foundation's new COO talk about blockchain use-cases

Yesterday at the beautiful Startit Centar in Zrenjanin Serbia, our new COO was discussing blockchain use-cases in industries such as banking, governance, reputation systems and education.

The most intense debate was around preventing frauds in crowdfunding operations such as ICO's and Einsteinium Accelerator for scientific researches.

The participant had brilliant ideas on how to address such issue with identity management and reputation systems built on top of the blockchain.

More about event you can see here.

Einsteinium Foundation is Official sponsor of the BLOCKCHAIN ADRIA Conference

Blockchain Adria – the Biggest Blockchain Conference in SE Europe

Blockchain Adria -- the biggest blockchain conference in South East Europe scheduled to be held on October 14, 2017, in Hotel Lone, Rovinj, Croatia.

The attendees will be introduced to different aspects of blockchain, focusing especially on the possibilities of developing a startups on this technology.

The blockchain is an increasingly popular technology on which cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Einsteinium are based, with characteristics that make this distributed base suitable for various uses.

The event will encompass lectures and demonstrations of different aspects and advantages of this technology, its areas of usage, as well as examples of regional initiatives based on the blockchain.

SPEAKERS – REGIONAL & WORLD LEADING EXPERTS

Confirmed speakers at the conference are leading blockchain experts in SEE and topics that are going to be covered: introduction to decentralized way of thinking,   presentations of regional blockchain projects, presentations of local Ethereum, Einsteinium projects, panel discussion, and Q&A session.

For more information please visit the official website: www.blockchainadria.com

Einsteinium Foundation is happy to support and promote this kind of events!

Conferences in October 2017

Einsteinium Foundation representatives will be very active in October, 2017. 

We are attending four major conferences in October 2017:

THE RISE OF ICO (Oct 2nd,3rd - Linz, Austria) - Malden Trifunovic (Board member)
BLOCKCHAIN SOLUTIONS FORUM (Oct 3rd,5th - Barcelona , Spain)  - Milos Milic (VP of Business Development)
BLOCKCON (Oct 10th,11th - Santa Monica, California) - Erick Calder (Board member)
BLOCKCHAIN ADRIA (Oct 14th - Rovinj, Croatia) - Milos Milic (VP of Business Development)

See you there!