[Dev] Hard fork to change retarget, averages and block time
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Looks like Feathercoin 0.8.6.1 is about to be released.
Thanks to Wellenreiter and Bushstar to all the works to make this happen. We’ve completed 2 weeks of live testing at the weekend, and there has been no further issue identified.
eHRC has performed completely as specified, even with the greater hash variability of the testnet. It bodes very well that it will perform as well as other methods of Hash Rate compensation, but with only minor changes to the standard protocol settings and calculations.
The release also includes transaction time reduction to one minute, which would be would be basically incredible, just by it’self.
We now need big publicity, so everyone knows this is a mandatory hard fork.
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We need to define and announce a block number and an estimated date for the fork, so everyone can prepare in advance and install the new clients.
We also should pro-actively contact the pool operators, if we know their forum names or other contact data.
When 0.8.6.0 was released, some pool operators missed the news…
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Wow great news thanks for all the hard work guys.
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I don’t thing 0.8.6.0 made much difference to the pools whereas the change to 0.8.6.1 will be mandatory. The messaging system is important for wallets upgrades, but pools and miners will need to be informed more creatively.
There are massive changes for a point release…
For once, I would be for a “swarm” of members helping out, contacting their pool, or miner friends etc.
I think Peter is finalising the release and fork block now. I understand he is looking at one week.
But perhaps two weeks would be better, we would still need huge publicity campaign.
The changes will particularly welcome by small and loyal miners, so it should be heavily supported It’s a real chance for community action to get these changes out quick.
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Incredible guys. Great work.
Let’s make history shall we?
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Could this receive a highlight on our home page along with a link for miners and pool operators to go to for what their action items are?
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Could this receive a highlight on our home page along with a link for miners and pool operators to go to for what their action items are?
good idea Matl. we will need a big push. Everything and the kitchen sink. You can all help.
Bush is working on a release plan, should be out soon.
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The testing is complete and the results are everything that the simulation said it would be. We are all very pleased with the results and will now put out the new version with two weeks notice on the hard fork. I am in Germany at the moment but have my Mac with me which has dual boot.Right now I am setting up a build environment on Windows with the latest OpenSSL and tomorrow will create the new clients. Once the new version is out I will make an announcement thread in general and send out messages on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit so keep an eye out.
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This may be out of context but are we affected by the heartbeat openssl vulnerability? Could this be looked at before the release or maybe be a separate project?
Your mention of openssl rang a bell.
Great news about the test results guys I’ll start rounding up a mailing list.
Do we need to need to contact merchants such as pock.io and others aswel?Its a long shot but could we contact coindesk and ask for a writeup on our multi pool defence and new block time?
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Good explanation :)
+1
By the way, all precompiled packages for the linux distributions should use dynamic links to openssl, so it is important, that users update their openssl packages, if this is not done automatically
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Pay attention to blocks 220882 to 220887. 6 blocks in 4 hours, all of them are P2Pool generated. Flound says all his blocks were rejected by the ACP. This is a problem.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.msg6586664#msg6586664
