Crypto
@​everyone Our devs have fixed the encoding of SNX and Neodash. They will be added to block 3 shortly.

Crypto
@​everyone

Merge v1.0.1 has been released!!

<https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge>
-Source code:
<https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge>
-Wallets:
<https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.1>

-Available versions:
```- macOS builds - (Sierra, High Sierra, and Mohave)
merge-1.0.1-osx-unsigned.tar.gz
merge-1.0.1-osx64.tar.gz
merge-1.0.1-osx-unsigned.dmg

- Linux x86_64 build
merge-1.0.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Linux i686 build (32bit)
merge-1.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz

- Windows 64bit
merge-1.0.1-win64-setup-unsigned.exe
merge-1.0.1-win64.zip

- Windows 32bit
merge-1.0.1-win32-setup-unsigned.exe
merge-1.0.1-win32.zip```

*Note - This update is not mandatory but recommended. This release should solve the wallet and chain corruption issues that users have been experiencing. Also included in this release were additional optimization in the wallet code.

-Wallet documentation/guides:
<https://kb.projectmerge.org/guides/wallet>
(if you can't open it using Chrome, then please try Mozilla Firefox-based browsers or Safari)

-Wallet error issue:
If you receive a error message and can't open your wallet, the Dev recommended is to close wallet, download the bootstrap and replace the folders in your wallet, delete the folder database and restart your wallet.
Bootstrap 2-13-19
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5q359cnbiu7jf1/MergeChain.zip?dl=0>

The other 2 options are to do a wallet.dat backup import or a complete reinstall of everything and use a wallet.dat backup from before the problem.
Note DO NOT DELETE EVERYTHING IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BACKUP FROM BEFORE THE PROBLEM!!

The Merge team would like to thank you for your patience and interest to be a part of Merge. Welcome to Merge!!
Thanks and have a great day!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/462658279626244096/549542708814020629/Merge_Community.jpg

Crypto
As much as it hurts to say, Block 2 coin swap has officially ended.
If you have sent coins to swap with any of the coins that were listed in block 2 before 11:45 pm est March 1st 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 available information on your ticket.
Block 3 swap will be open until March 15th.
We will announce close time when we aproach that date.
Thanks @​everyone

Crypto
@​everyone
Just a quick update.

Id like to thank @AltExplorer.co ! He has added Merge to his very awesome site! <https://altexplorer.co/coin/merge>

Also if you have a ticket open on the hub and you have received your Merge and everything is ok, please close your ticket. Theres alot still open. Its making it difficult to know who still needs help.

We are now using Gitlab instead of Github. Our repositories can be found here. <About the latest announcement on discord, better use the new link to the wallet instead of GitLab: coin.projectmerge.org/wallet>

And finally for those still swapping please follow these directions. If your wallet and ours dont match up our site will not know you sent coins. Please check the coin-status... if the lag is not 50 please don't open a ticket. If the lag is more then 50 .... we are fixing the swap explorer and when it catches up it will swap your coins.
Thanks

Crypto
-Merge Swap:
Theres alot of people having issues with the swap. Please follow the steps below.

-Quick guide to swap:
1. Watch the video:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tm4PElt5LM&feature=youtu.be>
2. Download the wallet:
#links or go to <coin.projectmerge.org/wallet>
3. Make sure your chain is moving:
Please make sure your wallet, the coin you are swapping's explorer, and our wallet #chain-status are on the same blockcount. If not you will not receive your Merge.
Also make sure Merge wallet is fully synced and on the correct block count as ours and the explorer. #chain-status <https://explorer.projectmerge.org>
If the blocks are off on our wallet or explorer please reach out to a Merge team member in the discord and we will work to fix the issue. But DO NOT SEND YOUR COINS until the blocks match.
4. Go to the swap site:
<https://swap.projectmerge.org/#/>
5. Enter your Merge receiving wallet address.
6. Pick a coin you wish to swap.
7. Send to BOTH BURN ADDRESSES that have been provided at the SAME TIME from the coin you are swapping.
8. Wait a minimum of 50 confirmations.
Every coin is different. Some take more.
9. If you have not received your Merge please wait 24 hrs. Some chains stop and we need time to resync and make sure we are on the correct block and chain.
10. Check your blocks to ours again #chain-status.
11. If they match and you still didn't receive your coins, open ticket here <https://hub.projectmerge.org/support/> after waiting 24hrs. Please wait and be patient. There are 2200 people in the Merge community and only 5 Merge team members working on the swap.
@​everyone

Crypto
@​everyone Curvecoin has been added to the swap block 3. Remember block 3 ends Fri March 15th. Kudos to the devs and ppl interested in making it work.

Crypto
@​everyone

1 more week until block 3 ends! And thee swaps are officially over!

10 billion swapcoins burned, 8255 swaps, 2398291.41 Merge distributed

Schedule ahead -
March 15th - Swaps end
March 16th - We announce the exchange
March 16th - 18th close out remaining tickets
March 16th - 21st clean up the swap equipment, review the data
March 22nd - List on exchange
March 23rd and on - Phase 2 begin development. Weve begun alot already but then the team will be freed up to go all in

There will be a page added to the website that shows all the swap data once we are finished.

Also we have created a channel for the testnet #testnet Please feel free to check in and contribute if you like.

Crypto
Hello PolisPay users!
We're offering FREE LISTING to your favorite coin!
Please follow the instructions on the image for a chance to see your favorite coin listed soon on #PolisPay!
We'll contact the dev team of the winning coin on 19/03 at 12:00 PDT
$Polis #cryptocurrency

Author
PolisPay (@polispayapp)

Crypto
@​everyone

1000 Merge Contest!!!

Hello Merge Community,
We have an opportunity to join with a newly announced CC/Crypto card community. A great community! Newly partnered with ZCoin!
A Lot of what we want to do will involve fiat to crypto transactions. This is very much needed in our direction! We have other possible ideas in mind but if you want this to work then please join us in making this work. This requires the community to get involved. All morning the team has talked the Polis community leaders from a $17k listing to a vote. They are showing kindness. Please show your support for this huge effort and great understanding. https://discord.gg/m6pdZK8
Please vote on the below.

“We are hosting a PolisPay free listing competition, if you want to see your coin listed, please follow the instructions in the following tweet:”

https://twitter.com/polispayapp/status/1105559400406634496

1. Please vote in this format
#BringToPolisPay $MERGE

and

2. Please follow:
PolisPay
https://twitter.com/polispayapp
twitter channel

and

3. Please follow:
PolisBlockchain https://twitter.com/PolisBlockchain
twitter channel.

Once you vote and do the above please add a link to your Polis tweet in the discord channel #polis-votes. You will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win 1000 Merge! #polis-votes

Crypto
@​everyone That voted. Please reread the announcement. I added a couple steps that were missing originally. I apologize and we appreciate your support. Thanks

west
@​everyone

The time we are closing for block 3:
11:59pm UTC 03/15
If you still have coins from block 3, we suggest to swap them asap before its to late .

Block 3 list coins can be found here:
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191YQwdTNJ-5QNovYIrba-a-GKzTJ-EhzTSRIiWKneLY/edit?usp=sharing>

west
@​everyone

As much as it hurts to say, the swap to Merge has officially ended and all of the swaps are finished. It was a great adventure but we are off to Phase 2 which will be yet another great adventure!

Development time!!

Swap stats:
2 Months
14,969,902,849 coins burned
9918 Swaps
2692678.86 Merge distributed

If you have sent coins to swap with any of the coins that were listed in block 3 before 11:59 PM UTC March 15th and not received 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 available information on your ticket.

Note - No tickets will be accepted after three days from today. 3/18/19 11:59PM UTC

Remaining schedule:
March 16th - announcement of the exchange
March 16th - 18th - close out remaining tickets
March 16th - 21st - clean up the swap equipment, review the data
March 22nd - List on exchange
March 23rd and on - Phase 2 begins development. We've begun many already and when finished, the team will be freed up to dedicate more time.

The team thanks everyone for their interest and help in making the swaps of 100 communities possible.
We look forward to working with all of you and making this project a success.
Thank you all! It's been an adventure! But one that will continue to success!

Joeldo
@​everyone
Dear Community,
We are very pleased to announce one of the most awaited news of Merge history. The exchange where we will finally get listed on March 22nd. We reached out to TradeSatoshi and they're the first exchange to have the privilege of having Merge on their list of traded assets. So let's wait for the beginning of trades and Happy Trading!

west
@​everyone

Swaps are over, we re not accepting new tickets regarding swaps.

The open/remaining tickets will be processed these week.

Crypto
@​everyone

Today we were supposed to list on the Trade Satoshi exchange in order to be fully listed and trading. However, it has come to our attention from some community members, others we know and some investigation that they have come into a bit of a KYC problem. What we've uncovered is that, as of March 16th 2018, they’re registered as a Hong Kong exchange. With that their terms may have changed recently due to some tightening of Hong Kong regulations and now have stricter requirements regarding KYC:

<https://tradesatoshi.com/Home/Terms>

<https://www.hkcompanydir.com/companies/tradesatoshi-limited/>

<https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/12/18/japan-reclassifies-crypto-while-hong-kong-tightens-regulations/>

From reading Anns and Social Media, there are many complaints from people being locked out of their accounts. Before we continue with this listing we are putting the decision up to the community. We do not want to put you all in a bad position only because we promised a listing by Fri 3/22 and did not want to disappoint you.
This is a vote whether to proceed or not. If you decide not to list we will explore other options and find another exchange. Feel free to vote how you feel.

This vote will last until 11:59PM UTC 03/22/2019.
Only thumb emojis count as a vote all other emojis will not be counted as a vote.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/433756526629617665/558099444969635845/unknown.png

west
@​everyone
As you may know PolisPay has encountered a problem with their Mexican bank that was financially tied to their card program. They are no longer allowed to issue cards outside of Mexico.

<https://medium.com/@PolisBlockchain/polispay-important-announcement-7f639965ca43>

<https://cryptonews.com/news/mexico-looks-to-bolster-crypto-regulations-3499.htm>

The Twitter contest would've ended 03-19-2019 regardless and we were not in first place by a very large margin. We thank everyone who contributed and made the effort to help. It is very much appreciated.

We will have the lottery for all those that posted in #polis-votes and the lucky winner will receive 1000 Merge!

The winner will be announced tomorrow

The Merge Core Team thanks you for your contribution and support. We will work on the lottery and distribution of the Merge coins shortly.

Thanks

west
@​everyone

The winner for Polis-twitter-contest has been choosen!

Congratulations to @Home-Mining

Please DM me your Merge address to receive your 1000 Merge.

Crypto
@​everyone
Please update to v1.0.2 <https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.2> as soon as possible.
On April 8 there will be a new mandatory release v1.0.3. The moment that the network gets consensus those not upgraded will be banned from the network.
Normally the update is not mandatory unless it requires a complete restart of your MN. We found at least one person staking and continuously paying a bad masternode to get the full block reward. So in a security measure the keys are changing so we can turn on the enforcement.
This new update will be  turning on the code to enforce a rule that is there.
Please update to v1.0.2 <https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.2>  soon as possible. It will make the mandatory update as smooth as possible and help secure the network before the update.

<https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.2>

Do we need to update our MN to 1.02 before april 8th?
Now or ASAP please.
MNs and wallets.

Crypto
@​everyone
This is the moment everyone has been waiting for!!
Today we are happy to announce Merge's Decentralized Exchange. Please welcome to MergeDEX!!

https://trade.mergedex.com/market/BIRAKE.MERGE_BIRAKE.BTC

Merge has joined Birake's network of exchange platforms, a new and innovative concept that uses the security of blockchain technology to share orderbooks among all the exchanges that belong to such network. This means that MergeDEX, since day one, has already a list of paired coins and trading volume coming from their shared orderbooks. That includes the pair for the Merge Coin with Bitcoin: MERGE/BTC

Even more, orders from traders will automatically be sent to all those exchanges within the Birake's network, exposing the buying and selling requests to a wider audience and, thus, increasing the chances to fulfill them.

Another great feature about the Birake's network of exchange platforms is that when traders trade Merge, Merge will receive 30% of the fees involved in the transaction/trade in the form of BIR. This BIR will be reinvested into buying Merge on the open market. Meaning the Core team is using the Merge transaction fees to purchase the traders Merge to fund the budget to pay for usecases in the future. In a sense a usecase that will fund further usecases.

More details and all relevant information including addresses to track the funds will be released on this topic in the upcoming days. There are more benefits that will be addressed also once all is in place.

Crypto
@​everyone
For more details about Birake and their system, please refer to the following materials:

- Birake's Discord: https://discord.gg/ZfV3DxM

- Birake's Whitepaper: <https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/456005151405375490/563646341054595083/whitepaper_birake.pdf>

- Birake's White Label Exchange: <https://youtu.be/K0_pHRvN4PY>
<https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/456005151405375490/563646499221667841/Screenshot_20190405-042510_Drive.jpg>

- Birake's current Network of Exchanges:
<https://dex.midas.investments/>
<https://zer-dex.market/>
<https://star-dex.com/>
<https://tokenhouse.io/>
<https://exchange.snode.co/>
<https://tuanexchange.com/>

Start using https://trade.mergedex.com/ now to trade your MERGE and benefit from trading within a community of traders!

All questions and/or comments regarding MergeDex please use the #mergedex channel.
All issues regarding MergeDex please use the #mergedex-issues channel.
Please do not clutter all the other channels with issues regarding the MergeDex.

Thank you for your patience!
Happy Trading and Enjoy!!

Regards
Merge Core team