i try both of them
as you see there is warning in status bar
screen shot :
what can i do?
Select some node
from here and add it to your wallet. Make sure you select active and updated node (version 1.5.1 with 'checked' sign).
Is Karbo going to release a hard fork like Monero to combat inflation from Cryptonight ASICs?
I stopped mining Karbo due to ASIC release.
ASICs are not mining Karbo yet and probably will not since they made own coins(forks of Monero) so for now you can still mine Karbo
We will prepare own POW just in case and to display that we can
but we believe this is pointless or in other words only interim solution. Although we do support Monero and Monero decision to switch POW (I endorse Monero), we will not use directly their algo 'as is' because we do not want to be compatible in mining with any large coin. It will be modified algo, and probably/preferably CryptoNight Heavy of Sumo. We are in different situation than Monero, our bigger and biggest concern are not ASICs but Nicehash which allow to rent enourmous hashrate (comparing to our network hashrate) for any puproses - not only mining but also to attack the network. We are doing our best to mitigate possible vulnerabilities. But there is no security to the blockchain when there is hashrate available at multiple size of the network. Nicehash is threat to any small coin. Changing POW won't save us from Nicehash or other multipool, or botnets - they will quickly add any profitable POW algo, whereas ASICs potentially could raise our hashrate and provide desired protection, though only in situation when ASICs owners will prefer to mine Karbo directly instead of renting them to Nicehash. If ASICs will support Karbo instead of Nicehash we, with high probabilily, will not ditch them. For this sake we even could deal with manufacturing centralisation and other high matter concerns like possible ban on import of ASICs or killswitch gag by government etc. In this case you can forget about CPU mining and even GPU mining, but if those do not provide us protection - we have other concerns than please GPU / CPU miners.
is blocks.dat available for direct download?
Yes, download from here
http://bootstrap.krbnodes.pp.ua/