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@​everyone We have setup a backup Block Explorer for MERGE: <https://explorerlite.projectmerge.org>
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@​here Dear Merge Community:

Swaps - Block 2

Huge thanks to all of you who have helped us preparing the list of coins for Block 2! Your contribution has been great!

Block 2 of coins to be swapped is now getting ready. Find the candidates on the spreadsheet that was previously shared: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=590477812>

Some wallets are not running as expected, thus we are marking them so that everyone is aware. If you have those running, then please let us know since this is needed for a successful swap. Those candidates that are not running by February 1st will be moved to the next round (Block 3).

Swaps - Block 3

Those coins that have not been fully confirmed for Block 2 are now part of Block 3's process. Similar than before, the missing data (yellow cells) need to be provided/confirmed in order to treat a coin as a candidate. Channel #block-three has been created to collect all the missing data. The spreadsheet is the same one than before. We will be soon add the latest coins that have been registered:<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=0>

We have partnered with Beacon to get some help having the block explorers for the coins to be swapped in Block 3. Beacon has a strong community and we are pleased to have come to an agreement with them! Learn more about Beacon on their Discord server: https://discord.gg/KazzEx

Swaps - Rejections

Unfortunately, not all the coins are meeting the requirements we specified on our Knowledge Base, or some are but their development teams asked us not to swap them for different reasons. We have created a new tab that lists the rejected coins along with the corresponding reasons: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=0>

Thanks for reading and let's get ready for the next round of swaps!
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@​everyone Dear Community, some updates before we launch the next block of coins to be swapped:

- @Merge | Sequel135 and @Merge | Aviator have recently joined Merge Core. Their contributions to the Merge Community have been remarkable. We are glad and lucky to have them onboard! Please welcome them!

- Swap Registrations are now closed. Thank you all for your proactivity in registering so many coins! We are processing the final list of coins that could be swapped in Block 3, which is the last round. We will share more details soon.

- As a reminder, the Merge Coin is approaching to its PoS and masternode phase, at block 57,602. At that time, PoW will end. Learn all about the new phase on our Knowledge Base:
<https://kb.projectmerge.org/guides/wallet/pos-staking>
<https://kb.projectmerge.org/guides/wallet/masternodes>
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@​everyone Block 2 of coins to swap to Merge has been released!

Details

- Swap Application: <https://swap.projectmerge.org/>
- Instructions: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/swap-instructions>
- Support: <https://hub.projectmerge.org/support>
- See the second block of coins being swapped and their ratios: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/coins-swapped>

Coin SNX is not ready due to last-minute issues. We will release it and let you all know as soon as the issues are fixed.

Please spread the word to the communities whose coins are being swapped.

Notes

1. Block 1 of coins is still active until Feb 15th. Check our timeline: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/swap-introduction#how-long-will-the-swap-to-merge-last>

2. Block 3 with the remaining list of coins registered can be found our our public spreadsheet: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=0>

We need your collaboration to have the Block 3 ready:

- Check the information on the spreadsheet and let us know if you see something wrong.

- Let us know if any of the coins listed on the spreadsheet are still active or not abandoned. In Merge, we help abandoned coins and we have no intentions whatsoever to swap coins that are still having an active development team.

- Share the addnodes when you see them missing on the spreadsheet.

- Similar than before, the yellow cells on the spreadsheet indicate "more information is needed".

- Those coins with the required information are moved to tab "Block 3 - Candidates" and are being analysed by us. We ask the community to help us only with those coins under the tab "Block 3".

Best Regards,
Merge Core Team
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@​everyone MERGE has successfully switched over to PoS and masternode, and PoW is over. Everyone can now obtain rewards coming from staking your wallet and setting up masternodes.

Make sure your wallet is unlocked for staking. As a security measure, tick "For anonymization and staking only". More information at <https://kb.projectmerge.org/guides/wallet/pos-staking>
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Ok @​everyone Thank you for your patience. We have the answer about the staking addresses. Since you all have put your pitchforks away. Jk
We originally had 2 MNs to start the network. One was sent to the team network and made a team MN. I hold no swap or anything to do with the budget coin wise. I just run the network MNs. 55. The last original MN was held by the Team Member that holds the bigger wallets. I won't say. We all know why. Was running the MN with the wallets. It appeared the wallets were staking but no staking was turned on. We had to find our team members and track thru our thousands of transactions and hundreds of addresses to find the issue. Its kind of a glitch. Simply the running MN was showing the big wallets as staking. The devs will fix the explorer. The explorer code needs to be modified to make a distinction between MNs and staking. I will happily go back to the finding us an exchange now. Any questions pls ask. Just pls no more pitch forks. Merge is meant to help us all not hurt. We need to work together. Especially when there are issues. If we scream scam everytime we have a problem we can't make this work. This is a community project. If we were in it for the money like I've said 1 mill times we would have done a reg ICO. Not scam ppl that have lost everything because of the scam we are rescuing them from.
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@​everyone Only one week left until block 3 of coins to swap is released. Also, on the same date, block 1 will end its swap period.

For more information, see our timeline: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/swap-introduction#how-long-will-the-swap-to-merge-last>

As a reminder, registration of new coins to swap has ended.

Regarding Block 3 (<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=0>) :

- Tab Block 3 lists the coins that cannot be swapped until more information is provided (yellow cells). Also, help us collecting the addnodes when you see them missing.

- Tab Block - Candidates are the coins that have fulfilled the requirements and have all the information we need to have them swapped in Block 3.

Best Regards,
Merge Core Team
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@​everyone The final day for the swap information needed is Thursday February 14th. 5 days from now. If we don't have the information needed for the coins on the spreadsheet in block 3, highlighted in yellow, those coins will not be eligible to swap. Please if you want those coins to swap, help us with the needed information. Githubs, explorers, etc. After Thursday, that group is the final group of coins we are swapping. That is eveyones last chance to swap. Please help if you can. Thanks
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=0>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laeV2slJgc8
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@​everyone The final day for the swap information needed is Thursday February 14th. 6 days from now. If we don't have the information needed for the coins on the spreadsheet in block 3, highlighted in yellow, those coins will not be eligible to swap. Please if you want those coins to swap, help us with the needed information. Githubs, explorers, etc. After Thursday, that group is the final group of coins we are swapping. That is eveyones last chance to swap. Please help if you can. Thanks
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Merge Team

We would like to welcome @burningman to the Merge Community team as a community helper! Thank you for reaching out to us and offering your assistance. burningman will be assisting all those in need of help with wallet or masternode issues. If you need help, don't hesitate to reach out to him.

Merge is looking for more talented people. If you have development skills of any kind, or skills you think would be valuable and usable to help Merge drive to success, then please reach out and let us know. You can post on a Discord channel or DM one of the team members.

Merge Tech

The Merge Core team has purchased a new server.

The purpose and use

This is a server for builds to be run against. The plan is to expand this out to offer build services to others, such as customers, via a web interface where consumers can purchase server time to run builds against.

Why would someone want to do this?

On a typical home computer, a single run to produce a wallet can take around 2 hours to complete when building with all of the required dependencies. By harnessing the power of the Merge Core build server, you can build a wallet that is ready for distribution in about 10 minutes. So rather than upwards of 8 hours to build each of the versions of the wallet, you are looking at less than 1 hour of time.

Server specs

- 32-core AMD Threadripper CPU (64 logical processing cores).
- 128GB DDR4 Ram.
- Base OS is running on a 256GB Samsung EVO 970 m.2 SSD.
- All processing is running on a 4TB Raid 10 consisting of 8 1TB enterprise class SATA drives, each with 128MB of cache.
- Supporting all of that power is a ASRocks x399 Taichi ATX motherboard.
- Coupled with a solid 1000w Corsair PSU.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526716114038816793/543955778550366218/image0.jpg
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Partnership

We have partnered with @Fz0077 and his site <http://checkthischain.com/>. Fz0077 will be writing on our Hub <https://hub.projectmerge.org/> as well as posting on his own site. Feel free to read CTC’s and enjoy his articles. Also, do not miss visiting CTC’s Discord when you get a chance: https://discord.gg/NkkxCrS
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Contests

We have created a new category for contests on our Discord.

Hub Articles Contest

Similar to @Fz0077, we are inviting writers to publish articles they have already written on other sites onto our Hub: <https://hub.projectmerge.org/>. The articles have to be specifically about blockchain projects.

With that being said, we are starting a weekly writers contest on our same Hub. We will offer a 100 MERGE reward for the best article.

The contests will be on a weekly basis, starting on Mondays and ending on Saturdays. Votes will be held on Sundays in the #hub-articles channel.

As part of the outcome of this contest, we seek for not only increase the number of posts coming from the Merge community, but also for finding potential writers that could write exclusively for Merge.

Video Game Contest

We are also starting a video game contest.

The idea is to develop a game that is directly related to Merge and the swap if possible. It can include other blockchain related items and anything related to blockchain, but it has to feature Merge.

Here is an example of the type of game style we are looking for: <https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/corgi-engine-2d-2-5d-platformer-26617>

This contest will last 1 month, concretely from February 11th until March 10th 2019. Votes will be held on March 11th 2019.

The prize is 1,000 MERGE. Questions, deliveries and the vote will be held in Discord, channel #video-game.

Disclaimer

The game that is developed, if it's related to an existing game, it cannot be sold. It has to be 100% free. No sales of any kinds. Meaning if someone makes a Merge Tetris game, it cannot be sold. That will violate copyright laws.
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Scam Story Contest

We are looking for the best scam story. Most are very sad, we are sure. We want to hear yours and everyone else's. By best it could mean different things in different ways. Life changing, sad, amazing, lucky, biggest loss, etc.

This is not about making anyone feel bad. We all lost. That's why we are here. We want to turn it all around and let others know our mistakes so they won't make them themselves.

Submit these scam stories to our Hub: <https://hub.projectmerge.org/category/scam-stories/>. Please post them in “Scam Story” to not mix with the other articles.

The best scam story will have its own category on the Hub, titled: Scam Story.

The contest will be held for 1 month, concretely from February 11th until March 11th 2019.

There will be a 50 MERGE reward. Votes will be held on March 12th 2019 in Discord, channel #scam-story.
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@​everyone We have 2 days left. The final day for the swap information needed is Thursday February 14th. 2 days from now. If we don't have the information needed for the coins on the spreadsheet in block 3, highlighted in yellow, those coins will not be eligible to swap. The coins on the block 3 candidates tab are eligible to swap. Please if you want those ineligible coins to swap, help us with the needed information. Githubs, explorers, etc. After Thursday, that group is the final group of coins we are swapping. That is everyone's last chance to swap. Please help if you can. If your community is in need of a block explorer for your coin please feel free to reach out to our partner Beacon for assistance or watch the video below and if you can please make one for you community.

On the block 3 candidates tab there are 3 coins we need addnodes for. We cannot get the wallets going. Diverse, Maze, Reliance. We need working addnodes. And Aspect/Azenix wallet will not compile. We need a working wallet. If we do not get the info for these 4 coins they also will be ineligible to swap. Please help if you can. Thanks.

https://discord.gg/yKgkd6E
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit#gid=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laeV2slJgc8
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@​everyone Block 3 of coins to swap to Merge has been released!

Details

- Swap Application: <https://swap.projectmerge.org/>
- Instructions: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/swap-instructions>
- Support: <https://hub.projectmerge.org/support>
- See the third block of coins being swapped and their ratios: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/coins-swapped>

These coins have been postponed for the following reasons. If we can resolve these issues we will swap them. But we need the help of this community and those coin communities.

-Coin SNX - due to incompatibilities with the public addresses. The SNX community has been informed accordingly.
-Coin NeoDash - due to incompatibilities with the chain.
-Coin Curve - due to the chain not syncing.
-Asterion - due to there being no source code. We cannot make the wallet.

Also these coins will not be swapped due to various reasons and information missing.

-ecopay coin - created after 1st July 2018
-posuniverse - NO ADDNODES
-community coin - NO ADDNODES
-sanchezium coin - still alive as per DEV team
-bitbucks - wallet not syncing
-joystick - Max Cap > 4 BTC
-unex - not listed on swap application
-android - wallet not syncing NO ADDNODES
-slash - wallet not syncing NO ADDNODES
-speedo - wallet not moving stuck on Dec 2018
-swap - wallet not moving (stuck at Feb.3.2019)
-relarium - NO ADDNODES No explorer
-zexcoin - NO ADDNODES
-slatechain - not syncing - NO ADDNODES

Please spread the word to the communities whose coins are being swapped.

Notes

1. Block 1 of coins will close tomorrow at 11 AM EST.

2. Block 2 of coins is still active until March 1st. Check our timeline here: <https://kb.projectmerge.org/swap-to-merge/swap-introduction#how-long-will-the-swap-to-merge-last>

Best Regards,
Merge Core Team
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As much as it hurts to say, Block 1 coin swap has officially ended.
If you have sent coins to swap with any of the coins that were listed in block 1 before 2:55 pm est February the 16th and not recieved them and you are beyond the 50 minimum 50 confirmations please open a ticket on the hub https://hub.projectmerge.org/.
Please also post your transaction number and whatever other information on your ticket.
Block 2 swap will be open until the 1st of March.
Block 3 swap will be open until March 15th.
We will announce close times when we aproach those dates.
Thanks everyone
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Theres alot of people having issues with the swap. Please follow this process.

Quick guide to swap -
Watch the video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tm4PElt5LM&feature=youtu.be>. Download the wallet #links. Make sure your chain is moving. Check your blocks to ours #chain-status . Go to the site <https://swap.projectmerge.org/#/>. Enter your Merge address. Pick a coin and Send to BOTH ADDRESSES at the same time from the coin you are swapping. Wait 50 confirmations. If not received wait 24 hrs some chains stop and we need time to resync and make sure we are on the correct block and chain. Check your blocks to ours again #chain-status . If they match and you still didn't receive your coins, open ticket here <https://hub.projectmerge.org/support/> after 24hrs. Then wait and be patient. We all have jobs, lives and families. We don't live on discord or the internet. But we want to help everyone in any way we we can. Thats the purpose of Merge! Also there's tons of info on the KB to help with any questions <https://kb.projectmerge.org/>.

If you have problems with your wallet with the error and it will not open please reach out to @Merge | Aviator. We are trying to solve this issue and recover your coins. We will need your debug log and if some are willing your wallet.dat (YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THIS) with any other info relating to your tx. You will receive your coins. This is what we are trying to achieve. Recovering the coins from peoples corrupt wallets. If you are willing to do this ONLY DM myself or @Merge | Aviator with info. DO NOT POST IT ON A CHANNEL!!

If your chain has stopped and a miners hash will get it going please reach out to @chowder . Chowder is willing to help. Please do not ask him about Block 1 coins. We are trying to find a resolution to the stopped chain Block 1 tickets and issues.

Thanks hoped this helped. Enjoy your weekend.
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Cryptorescue coin will no longer be a part of block 3 and is being stopped swapping now 6:26 PM EST.

The chain is having issues and our swap script is not handling the error well. Our swap explorer will is having problems picking it up, causing us a lot of manual work. We are entirely too busy and there's too many coins to start swapping manually.

Everyone that has swapped Cryptorescue before 6:26 PM EST 2/18/19 and didn't receive your coins please open a ticket on the hub <https://hub.projectmerge.org/support/> . The the transactions may have to be done manually. Please be patient when you open your ticket. Someone will help you as soon as they can.

We apologize but the code is just too much for our system.
Thanks