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

AP
@​everyone , we need your help to get listed on Blockfolio app. https://feedback.blockfolio.com/coin-requests/p/merge
Please register account on their website and upvote our request to see Merge coin in Blockfolio app. Thank you for your attention.

west
@​everyone

This update is Mandatory!

Please update to v1.0.3 <https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.3> as soon as possible.

From today the moment the Merge network gets consensus those not upgraded will be banned from the network.

This is mandatory, it requires a wallet update, a complete MN stop, replace files and restart, both of your MN on the VPS and a start alias from within your wallet.

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 v1.0.3 <https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.3> A.S.A.P.

Thank you

west
@​everyone

As a reminder,
Please update to v1.0.3 <https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.3> as soon as possible.

This update is Mandatory!

This requires a local wallet qt stop, replace/update qt and restart wallet. Also a complete MN stop, replace qt file and restart, wherever its being hosted, then a MN start alias from within your wallet. The protocol has been changed from 70912 to 70913.

From today the moment the Merge network achieves consensus those not upgraded will be banned from the network.

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.

Also we need your help to get listed on the Blockfolio app. We currently are working on getting listed on more sites such as CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, etc. and updating the links and information in #listings. As we receive verification of these listings we will announce them over time. https://feedback.blockfolio.com/coin-requests/p/merge
Note - Please use the up arrow to vote on the Blockfolio site .

Want to help the value and price of Merge?
We welcome https://merge.appareljunction.com. It is our new apparel site but also another usecase for Merge. It offers 50/50 Profit Sharing. 50% of the purchase will be used to buy Merge on exchange and deposited to Merge budget. Plus 50% off shipping. International shipping is available.
For example - @375 sats Merge, that's an estimated 512 Merge buy order that will be placed on the MergeDex exchange ~$10
Please DM DFWplay#3317 your order # and he just may send you some Free Merge for your contribution.

Thank you from the Merge team. Have a great weekend.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526737599549669398/565836786035851274/500.png

west
Note - Once logged on Blockfolio don't forget to click on the vote button 👇 👇 👇 https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526716114038816793/565661322931601419/Screen_Shot_2019-04-10_at_6.14.31_PM.png

AP
@​everyone
Birake has joined us in our quest to get listed on Blockfolio!

They are working to get all 7 exchange communities to work together. The Merge vote is to get Merge coin listed. The Birake vote is to get the exchanges listed. We have 2K people in our community and Birake 6K. This does not include the other 6 exchange communities populations. In a sense all sharing a network for our exchanges, we are one very large community. Lets show eachother support.

Please if you can vote for Merge and Birake as well. We need your support to achieve this. It only takes 2 minutes of your time to work toward increasing the value of Merge and spread our presence throughout the crypto community.

Thanks from Merge team

Merge
https://feedback.blockfolio.com/coin-requests/p/merge

Birake
https://feedback.blockfolio.com/exchange-requests/p/birake

Note - Please use the up arrow to vote on the Blockfolio site .

west
@​everyone

This is a vote if theres a need for an tipbot for discord.
👍 yes
👎 no

The tipbot comes with basic commands ; tip, depost, withdraw ,rain, soak. In the future more commands will be added.

Also to the ones that havent updated there wallet please do this ASAP.
<https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.3>

If your wallet doesnt sync:
use the bootstrap <https://chains.coin-server.com/chains/merge/>
delete peers.dat or add forcednsseed=1 in your conf file
you dont need addnodes

Thank you

Crypto
@​everyone

Today at noon EST (2hrs 20min from now) the development team will engage two sporks.
These are:
- Masternode Payment Enforcement
- Banning of peers on the old protocol
If you have not updated to v1.0.3 your MNs and wallets will be kicked off the network and stop recieving rewards.
Please update A.S.A.P.
Thank you.

Crypto
@​everyone
Please if you have any addnodes in your Merge conf file, in your local wallet or MN please remove them. They are no longer needed and confusing the network.
Local wallet - Please shut down your wallet, open your conf file and delete the addnodes. Then start local wallet.
MN - Please stop your MN, open your conf file and delete the addnodes, save it and start your MN. You will not lose your place in the reward line. There is a 2hr timeout window before your MN is listed as missing.
Also anyone not updated to v1.0.3 Protocol 70913 Please do so A.S.A.P. You will be kicked off the network once the sporks kick in.
<http://coin.projectmerge.org/wallet>
<https://gitlab.projectmerge.org/ProjectMerge/merge/tags/v1.0.3>
Thank you

AP
@​everyone
We are pleased to share our next goals with the below Roadmap.

What has been accomplished?

Our team has been working rigorously night and day, 24/7 for almost a year, to help realize the most creative and ambitious ideas that makes Merge a success.
<https://kb.projectmerge.org/>
<https://hub.projectmerge.org/bringing-blockchains-together/>

First we began with the swaps. The founders and core team had an overwhelming desire to Merge as many communities as possible together, all while helping those who found themselves in a similar position as ourselves. It was a success and we are very pleased that you chose to join our community! The swap site will now be used as a future usecase: <https://swap.projectmerge.org/#/>

Next we ventured into finding an exchange. After deliberation and planning, we decided to list on the Birake network. Shared exchange networks are the next evolution in the cryptocurrency markets. We see this as an opportunity to land on the playing field, guide and develop it into the way that fits our community and investors. For every trade transaction, the fees are converted and sent to the Merge budget. This is also currently being used as a usecase! <https://www.mergedex.com/>

After that we started a Merge Merchandise shop. This might not seem useful, but there is a 50/50 profit sharing and the proceeds are used to buy MERGE from you off of the MergeDex Exchange and sent the proceeds to the Merge budget. This is also currently being used as a usecase! <https://merge.appareljunction.com/>

What comes next?

Now we venture into the continuance and full contribution from the team for creating usecases, products and services. Our plan is to begin to disclose these as time progresses. The below Roadmap is a rough estimate and our goal is to have many finished much sooner than projected. So we reach out to you and ask for your non-solitude and contribution.
Lets build value for everyone!