Hello again ECC’ers!

First of all, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy new year! We hope you’ve been able to spend some quality time with your families over the holidays and we wish you all the best for 2020. Let’s get right into it!

Development Update:

Here are a few highlights of the work done on the development side for the back half of 2019:

* Internal bug fixes and threading improvements

* A Significant speedup in blockchain synchronization

* AODV routing and data packet transmission (base layer for messaging) complete.

* New ZMQ…

from the ECC Team

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” — Coco Chanel

Hello ECC community — it’s been awhile.

We have a few changes to discuss today as far as how ECC is going to realize its vision of creating decentralized common network services on the blockchain. That basic vision is still intact as far as instituting messaging and file services are concerned, but the change is in how we plan on getting there.

Through research & development in getting the multi-chain going, some faults became very apparent, mainly around scalability.

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from the ECC Team

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. — Warren Buffett

Due to the nature of cryptocurrency’s current bear market and the price of many coins/tokens being 80% or more down since January 2018’s highs it seems like most people are overly focused on price. Some even believe that a low price point alone signifies the “death” of any particular cryptocurrency. Fortunately this couldn’t be further from the truth!

The true life and death of a cryptocurrency, while influenced minimally by price, is more vastly contributed to development. Want to really know if a…

from the ECC Team

Patience is not simply the ability to wait — it’s how we behave while we’re waiting. — Joyce Meyer

Dev Update

The current release, as I’m sure many of you have already seen, is version 0.2.5.14. The exchanges have 0.2.5.14, but it’s not yet available to everyone else. Most people are currently running version 2.5.11.

All further updates (including 0.2.5.14) prior to the upgrade to 1.0.0.0 are optional. 1.0.0.0 will be the next mandatory upgrade. The next few updates are focused around adding additional experimental features and some performance optimizations. Upgrading from 0.2.5.11 to 1.0.0.0 should result in:

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from the ECC Team

Happy New Year $ECC holder. What a year!

If you had asked me where crypto prices would be today all the way back on January 1st, 2018, I’d have said Bitcoin will likely be north of $50k and ECC would surely be at least 1 cent by now. Hard to not be a little embarrassed.

And this would have been my conservative guess.

In my euphoric optimism, I felt it plausible that Bitcoin could be nearly $100k and ECC, crypto’s hidden gem, may be north of 10 cents.

That’s how much I believed! And I dare…

from the ECC Team

Our apologies to Clement Clarke Moore ;)

’Twas the week before Christmas, when all through Discord

The mood was somber and quiet, and people seemed bored.

The price has been falling, and wallets were bare,

But hopes that Sapphire with ANS soon would be there.

The holders were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of l̶a̶m̶b̶o̶s̶ scooters danced in their heads;

The bear was upon us, and had eaten our stack.

Bitcoin had settled for a long winter’s nap.

When out on GitHub there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from the bed to…

from the ECC Team

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The climb to success is often a hard one and even a lonely one, but one thing is for sure — it cannot be done by doing nothing. No matter how low the price of Bitcoin drops, how low the market cap of cryptocurrency as whole goes or how negative the market sentiment revolving around it all gets, the ECC Team is dedicated to making this climb. …

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I congratulate myself warmly for each accomplishment, then ask, “What’s next?” — Jonathan Lockwood Huie

After several months of dealing with lawyers, contracts, and miscellaneous paperwork, we are now pleased to announce that The ECC Foundation has been officially incorporated in the Netherlands and is registered through the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam!

This is a great accomplishment that needs to be celebrated — but it means that work has only just begun.

Why does ECC need a foundation?

For ECC to succeed, it will need to grow its reach in order to represent a much larger and more diverse community…