# Important: renew your membership!

**URL:** https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123
**Category:** ZetaB
**Created:** [8 January 2015 17:47 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123 "2015-01-08T17:47:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/cgeek/32/279_2.png) [@cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/u/cgeek)
#### Post date: [8 January 2015 17:47 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123/1 "2015-01-08T17:47:11Z")

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As you may know, membership have an expiration date: on ZB currency, it has a **1 month validity duration**.

For the very first members ( @vit, @Inso, @ManUtopiK and me), this means our _join_ membership will expire on 8/1/2015 at 9:51, blockchain time, which is in less than a day.

If you do not renew your membership, **you will be kicked from the community** and no more be a member, until you join back. During that time, you won’t be able to certify people neither to co-create your Universal Dividend.

To renew your membership, simply update vucoin:

```
$ sudo npm install -g vucoin

```

and send a renew command:

```
$ ucoin --salt <salt> --passwd <pass> -h twiced.fr -p 9101 renew <uid> --send
```

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### Author: ![Inso](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/inso/32/1229_2.png) [@Inso](https://forum.duniter.org/u/Inso)
#### Post date: [8 January 2015 18:48 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123/2 "2015-01-08T18:48:45Z")

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If no error was printed and only the membership document is shown, its ok ?

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### Author: ![cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/cgeek/32/279_2.png) [@cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/u/cgeek)
#### Post date: [8 January 2015 19:42 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123/3 "2015-01-08T19:42:23Z")

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You have forgotten the `--send` option. So it’s not ok!

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### Author: ![ManUtopiK](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/manutopik/32/29_2.png) [@ManUtopiK](https://forum.duniter.org/u/ManUtopiK)
#### Post date: [8 January 2015 21:39 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123/4 "2015-01-08T21:39:40Z")

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I did the command, but there was nothing back!  
How to know if I correctly renew my membership ?

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### Author: ![cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/user_avatar/forum.duniter.org/cgeek/32/279_2.png) [@cgeek](https://forum.duniter.org/u/cgeek)
#### Post date: [9 January 2015 12:25 UTC](https://forum.duniter.org/t/important-renew-your-membership/123/5 "2015-01-09T12:25:44Z")

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You have a message “Successfully sent renew membership” if things went well.

But now it is too late for you, you have been kicked from the WoT by non-renewal of your membership.

To join back:

```
$ ucoin --salt <salt> --passwd <pass> -h twiced.fr -p 9101 join <uid> --send

```

Note that you won’t be able to be reintegrated into the WoT, since you also need 3 signatures from current WoT members (your previous signatures from inso, vit and I are expired and cannot be renewed before 1 more month).