Hello,
I am a Board Member of the SolarCoin Foundation and responsible for communicating with the community of investors and miners.
SolarCoin is planning to fork our coin at block 300,000, which will be reached sometime early next week. The purpose of this fork is to gradually reduce our block reward as a transitional phase before switching to Proof-of-Stake. The block reward will fall -3 every day for about a month (e.g. Day 1: 99 per block, Day 2: 96, Day 3: 93, and so on...). After the block reward reaches 1 SLR, we will switch the coin to PoS with 1% annual staking interest.
This plan has been discussed in our community over the past several weeks and was voted for unanimously by our team and our community in our Bitcointalk thread.
We would like to ask you to please switch your SLR pool to the fork when it happens next week. Please let us know if you will do this.
Thanks,
The SolarCoin Foundation
I am a Board Member of the SolarCoin Foundation and responsible for communicating with the community of investors and miners.
SolarCoin is planning to fork our coin at block 300,000, which will be reached sometime early next week. The purpose of this fork is to gradually reduce our block reward as a transitional phase before switching to Proof-of-Stake. The block reward will fall -3 every day for about a month (e.g. Day 1: 99 per block, Day 2: 96, Day 3: 93, and so on...). After the block reward reaches 1 SLR, we will switch the coin to PoS with 1% annual staking interest.
This plan has been discussed in our community over the past several weeks and was voted for unanimously by our team and our community in our Bitcointalk thread.
We would like to ask you to please switch your SLR pool to the fork when it happens next week. Please let us know if you will do this.
Thanks,
The SolarCoin Foundation
We will update solarcoin pool of course!
But would you please upload the new sourcecode to github and release the new qt wallet?
It is crucial to prepare forking for pools, users, and exchange sites.
Thank you. Sorry for the delay. Everything should be ready this weekend. I'll let you know as soon as it is.
SOLARCOIN UPDATE:
The SolarCoin fork is scheduled for block 310,000, which will be reached in a few days from now.
Here is the code: https://github.com/solarcoin/solarcoin/tree/reward-reduction
Here are the new wallet downloads:
Windows: http://www.mediafire.com/download/66z5wrzdne4x3b4/solarcoin-1.5-win-qt.zip
Mac: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60507461/SolarCoin-Qt.zip
Linux: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5q9h7stgqmra72g/solarcoin-1.5-linux-qt.tar.gz?dl=0
Please note that if installing the new wallet on a machine that doesn't have the old SolarCoin wallet installed, you will need to add nodes to the solarcoin.conf file. Here are some which should work:
addnode 50.121.198.164
addnode 162.243.214.120
addnode 64.34.49.151
addnode 107.170.138.159
addnode 78.151.140.165
addnode 192.99.47.133
addnode 67.255.7.120
addnode 50.41.98.76
addnode 87.118.88.200
addnode 178.62.36.143
Also a note regarding the new Mac wallet specifically, a couple of Mac users have reported they could not get it working, but most testers have said it works fine. Our dev team is trying to figure out what the issue was with those two users. Hopefully if you use it you won't have problems.
