With a little under 4,500 block to go before the hard fork I thought I would throw out what I expect to see happen, issues that may arise and how to go about resolving them.
As it stand now approximately 60% of the network is using the wallet which contains the hard fork code which addresses the incorrect calculation of stake interest. I would like to see this number higher, however am pleased with the adoption so far. So for those out there running older wallets than PiggyStakes 1.2.0 I once again urge you to update to PiggyStakes. There is no real reason to be running earlier versions and come the fork it will not accept properly staking blocks effectively banning itself from the majority of the network.
I can confirm Poloniex as well as Chainz.cryptoID and other critical nodes have updated, so I am not expecting any issues there which is great.
What I do expect to see is a spike in orphaned blocks as the old wallets fork onto their own chain, but still try propagate blocks to the "fixed" chain. PiggyStakes will accept blocks claiming less than their entitled reward, however the old wallets will not, so once again, may as well upgrade now before block 415k.
Some are expressing concern over the low volume of coins being staked at the moment. This was expected, why stake now when I can earn more post-fork, and although it may appear at first glance to be harming the network, it is still strong. Team PiggyCoin is also insuring the network through this time by continuing to stake for th sake of the network. Post fork I expect to see a number of large stakes which will strengthen the new chain, making it the superior chain over the old should their be any competition.
Overall I expect this to be a fairly smooth fork, with a few bumps as those with old wallets continue to stake, but will smooth out as more upgrade to the latest wallet.
Thanks fellow piggies who are running the new wallet, I hope you enjoy the staking fix as well as more changes and innovations to come from Team PiggyCoin in the future. PiggyCoin is far from dead and although we've followed a path lesser traveled, with many obstacles along that path, access to limited resources, this coin has managed to survive and make it to this point. I still look around at the wasteland of other alt-coins scam-coins and am proud this experiment / project has not failed.
This is as much a thanks to my fellow team members as to all those Piggies and Piglets out there who never gave up on this coin. From looking at the block chain there are quite a few of you out there, once again thanks!
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is there a MAC wallet?
do we have to do anything with coins on poloniex?