Emerald version v0.8.7.7-beta

• scrypt - proof of work
• 20 second block times
• currently 0.10 EMD per block
• 3 confirmations per transaction
• 50 confirmations per mined block
• difficulty adjusts each block with DGW3
• ~32,000,000 total coins over time
• P2P Port - 12127
• RPC Port - 12128

• download the Emerald Blockchain Snapshot
• put and unpack the snapshot.zip file into your Emerald directory
• start the Emerald client with the option -reindex
• now the indexing of the copied blockchain is started

visit and register on  Graviex Exchange

• point your miner on stratum+tcp://pool.emeraldcrypto.de:12125 and use as username YOUR_EMD_ADDRESS and as password c=EMD or anything else
  
  <YOUR_MINER> -a scrypt -o stratum+tcp://pool.emeraldcrypto.de:12125 -u <YOUR_EMD_ADDRESS> -p c=EMD
  
  Do not use an exchange address. You will lose your mining rewards.
  
  hint - you can use our WebWallet for free

• Feel free to setup your own mining pool. You can use the github repository of P2pool-EMD here

please visit and check the block height on these sites

  Emerald Crypto Blockchain Explorer
  Prohashing Blockchain Explorer
  Graviex Exchange Wallet Info
  Hash to Coins Mining Pool
  Zpool Mining Pool (there is a delay on showing on showing)
  Emerald Crypto Website (there is a delay of 60 sec on showing)

genesis block of Emerald was created on 2013-06-16 05:01:49

  block 0000000 - 3110399  -  block reward 5.00 EMD after 2.0 years
  block 3110400 - 3888000  -  block reward 2.50 EMD after 2.5 years
  block 3888001 - 4665600  -  block reward 1.00 EMD after 3.0 years
  block 4665601 - 5443200  -  block reward 0.50 EMD after 3.5 years
  block 5443201 - 6220800  -  block reward 0.25 EMD after 4.0 years
  block 6220801 - 6998400  -  block reward 0.10 EMD after 4.5 years
  
  from block 6998401 to infinite, the block reward remains on 0.10 EMD

visit  CoinWik article

visit  Roadmap

• download the wallet Emerald-qt.exe and put it in a new directory named c:\emerald

• after the first start of Emerald-qt stop the wallet by File/Quit

• edit the emerald.conf file (usually in %APPDATA%\Emerald) and restart
  .
      rpcuser=choose_a_username
      rpcpassword=choose_a_password
      rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
      rpcport=12128
      port=12127
      rpcallowip=*
      server=1
      daemon=1
      listen=1
      addnode=108.61.10.90
      addnode=82.200.205.30
      addnode=65.102.140.116
      addnode=105.103.136.130
      addnode=46.252.49.204
      addnode=151.80.97.28
      addnode=176.50.170.49
      addnode=46.105.63.132
      addnode=46.254.11.158

• download the latest blockchain bootstrap here

• unzip the file in your Emerald directory (windows: %APPDATA%\Emerald)
  you will see the file bootstrap.dat

• start the Emerald-qt.exe file

• now the Emerald Wallet should import the blockchain from your local harddrive

MD5SUM checksum of bootstrap.dat files
17c77ce439576b180065c9f718bc62a6  20170420_5255591_EMD_bootstrap.zip
1b63481946e9a7f9a1a9478c80646976  20170607_5449211_EMD_bootstrap.zip
330a00d4825b90c06ff61707cbc71031  20171018_5983044_EMD_bootstrap.zip
b782b291a4d6821259c7cec216f97d1d  20171209_6194153_EMD_bootstrap.zip
cf77493639d66710750525fd88652ece  20180114_6336993_EMD_bootstrap.zip

important
please be patient, it could take some time to import all the blocks

launch your Emerald Wallet as usual
wait for it to load the blockchain and start up

• click on ‘help’ in the menu bar (top right)

• click on ‘debug window’

• select the ‘console’ tab

• type: listaccounts
  you will get your accounts, typically "": <amount of EMD>

• type: getaddressesbyaccount <your accountname> (typically "")
  you will get your public key (public address)

• type: dumpprivkey <your public key>
  you will get your private key

save both, public and private key, on a file and print them on paper.
store this paper on a safe place.
you can restore your Emerald wallet using your private key on every new wallet and new computer.

keep your private key for yourself. Otherwise you can lose your Emerald amount

launch your Emerald Wallet as usual
wait for it to load the blockchain and start up

• click on ‘help’ in the menu bar (top right)

• click on ‘debug window’

• select the ‘console’ tab

• type: listaccounts
  you will get your accounts, typically "": <amount of EMD>

• type: importprivkey <your private key>
  you will add this private key to your wallet

• type: listaccounts
  a new account should now have been added

the wallet rescans the blockchain to find the EMD amount that is associated to the new private key.
please be patient, it could take some time to scan all the blocks.

keep your private key for yourself. Otherwise you can lose your Emerald amount

• Your Emerald Wallet have to be synced

• Edit your Emerald.conf file (usually in %APPDATA%\Emerald) and add
  .
      listen=1
      daemon=1
      server=1
      rpcuser=choose_a_username
      rpcpassword=choose_a_password
      rpcport=12128

.

• Restart your Emerald-qt client with " -server" argument added

• Start your miner now by using the RPC username and password to connect to your localhost to mine solo
  .    cgminer --scrypt -o http://localhost:12128 -u choose_a_username -p choose_a_password <other parameters>