Hi singula,
it's good to see you still around. People tend to say Cachecoin is/was dead. But you are the living proof it's not the case since you have been here from the beginning and you are still contributing.
Do you mind commenting on my plans to create a more modern wallet? Since your pool has 97% of the hashrate, I will need to stay in touch with you for possible forking plans.
--- vertoe
Yes, catcoin pool was also actually the first pool that was created for mining CACHe.
I think it is a good idea to create a more modern wallet, although that does not necessarily mean breaking network/blockchain compatibility (if the key rules for difficulty, tx fees, genesis block, coin maturity and other key coin design components does not change, then the old and new wallet can even coexist ....) for example DOGEcoin code was rebased to a newer wallet, based on newer version of litecoin - which improved some things, like faster blockchain synchronization, but people were still able to run the old wallet. Although there were some "incompatible" changes like raising the too-low txfee to fix possible issues with tx spam, but these were independent on the wallet modernization.
Stuff like coin-control patches (to have more fine-grained control over coin sending), watch-only wallet support (to track coins not in your wallet
and other may be nice to implement and will certainly make the wallet more usable.
Are there also any major design changes in the roadmap that may affect the network/blockchain compatibility?
In that case I will have to update the wallet, even though that may cause a brief outage at the pool. If the blockchain format on disk does not change, the update is very quick - just compile new version, then kill coin daemon, replace binary, start coin daemon (few seconds outage) and then just check the remaining pool components to ensure nothing has broken. Re-downloading the blockchain may cause longer outage (maybe few minutes), but there are some tricks to minimize it (like downloading the chain to another server in the same datacenter first, so the redownload on the pool wallet will be then very quick ...)
I guess I should also revise the content at the unofficial wiki I created some time ago at
http://wiki.cachecoin.net/w/Main_Page (some information there may be slightly outdated).
save some for me, i'm coming!
