CRITICAL WALLET UPDATE READY FOR DOWNLOAD!! Upgrade before Tuesday evening, by block 12800 (about 10:00pm Pacific time), is mandatory to remain mining and staking on the Verus chain.Get your new wallets and mining software here:
http://veruscoin.io/Includes the following changes, which will activate at block 12800:
1. We noticed that the time locks, while random, were low resolution and traced this to the block random number generator, used only for this purpose. This has been smoothed, and we even used our own VerusHash algorithm to improve the speed. This will activate at block 12800.
2. We had a Zcash setting disabled which is the default state in the Komodo platform to allow direct transfer of coins from coinbases to transparent addresses. Even after we learned about this, we did not use it to speed staking activity because we wanted to be completely fair and believe the setting should be in place. We put in the shieldcoinbase transaction support in the GUI wallet because it was our intent to provide an opt-out privacy model, not opt-in. We believe that opt-out privacy gives everyone more of an option for privacy, by making the choice for privacy itself private. Coinbases being shielded or sent only to private addresses will be an enforced rule as of block 12800.
3. We have enabled our ability to spend our fairly mined UTXOs that we could locate with certainty. To be 100% transparent, here is the list of exact UTXOs with links to the explorer:
http://veruscoin.io/txids.html. These are our UTXOs, and if anyone can show that any of the addresses are under their control, we will release funds to them immediately. It is likely that we have lost, irretrievably, some 10s of thousands of Verus due to shielding from coinbases for staking and transactions that we simply couldn't confirm for certain were ours. Rather than take any further effort to recover more funds, we will will focus our energy towards making Verus Coin the project we envision.
4. We have made improvements to both sending funds and even added a mining button to the GUI wallet that can show your mining/staking status and hashrate.
Meet us on Discord
https://discord.gg/VRKMP2S. Let us know that you've upgraded and what you think of the new wallet
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IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPGRADING WALLET:
Whenever you upgrade your wallet, if you have funds, always backup your wallet.dat file. This contains your keys and must be safeguarded, as it can be used to access all of your funds. You can find this file in the following location on Linux:
~/.komodo/VRSC/wallet.daton Windows:
/Users//AppData/Roaming/Komodo/VRSC/wallet.datThe easiest way to upgrade is to backup your wallet file, then leave that file and the directory it is in alone and in place. Then, delete the folder where you stored your previous Agama installation and extract or copy the top level folder in the new Agama archive and all of its contents to the location you want to have the Agama wallet application. It just needs to be copied in place and can be run by executing the Agama program (Linux) or Agama.exe (Windows)