OK guys we have a hard fork in place which will take place at block 25200 which is 2189 blocks away at the time I type this. (Halfway between the next 2 difficulty adjust points under the original code). As we're currently on a 0.127671 difficulty and still not meeting the 2.5 minute target I expect the difficulty to go down at block 24192 for the final leg towards block 25200.
What does this hard fork change?This hard fork took inspiration from the recent hard fork to Mincoin which in recent days has proved very effective at keeping the difficulty at an appropriate value for the network to ensure blocks are solved at or around the target timeframe consistantly.
Once you are running the new version of GameCoin, from block 25200 the difficulty will be evaluated once every 48 blocks. This should be around once every 2 hours after the difficulty stabilizes for the size of the network. Also the difficulty will come down 4 times faster than it rises so this should ensure that we're not at too high a difficulty for too long in the event we get flash miners targeting the coin.
Gamecoin specifications (up to and including block 25199)2.5 minute block targets
2016 blocks (3.5 days) to retarget difficulty
subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
~3360 million total coins
1000 coins per block
Scrypt based
Gamecoin specifications (Block 25200 and above)2.5 minute block targets
2016 blocks (3.5 days) to retarget difficulty48 blocks (2 hours) to retarget difficulty
Difficulty goes down 4 times faster than it goes up to protect against flash miners pushing the difficulty up too far.subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
~3360 million total coins
1000 coins per block
Scrypt based
Network InfoDefault P2P port is 9776
Default RPC port is 9777
Windows - QT wallettyrion70 has once again kindly compiled a Windows QT wallet and you can get the download link from his blog
here.
If you want to show your appreciation to
tyrion70, please consider sending a donation to his GameCoin address:
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Mac OS X - QT walletAlso we now have a Mac wallet courtesy of
maxpower who has been spreading the Mac love recently in his
[ANN] The Definitive List of Mac Altcoin Wallets thread. You can download this client
here. One thing to note is that maxpower states that this client may not work on OS X prior to 10.7 Lion.
If you want to show your appreciation to
maxpower, please consider sending a donation to his GameCoin address:
GYmHJ871jnynvoyjiZhcjC5bbdJGYxide5
Source CodeThe current source code for self compiles can be downloaded from
GitHub.
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