It has been two weeks since our security fork. I think we can look at the data and call it a success.
Coins per day has returned to approximately normal with full inflation control ability:
Difficulty is high as ever. Lots of people were on the old chain for a few days, or even a week or so, thus stocking up stake weight that raised the difficulty when they got to the main chain. I also beleive that the narrow time drift parameter will in general ensure that difficulty stays a little bit higher than it was because we now reject any blocks too far into the future that would have pushed our difficulty down.
Development is now starting to return to its normal path. The last two weeks we (me, allejupa, idunk, and many others) have focused on taking care of a lot of bugs in the code, getting the autotools build system to work smoothly, and launching a testnet so that we can test some cool new code without impacting the main net. Now we will be focusing on moving HYP development forward.
Some development items on the list:-
Get gitian to build so that we can have a nice cross compiler which will allow for 32 and 64 bit binaries for Windows and Mac. This will also allow us to check our builds to make sure that viruses or bad code doesn't somehow make it into the build. Allejupa from irc is very interested in this project, and will be testing some code over the next few weeks.
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Stake time estimator I would like to build a tool that will let you hash each of your coin blocks days/weeks into the future and tell you when your block will most likely stake. This is completely doable, your PoS hash doesn't change through time, only the difficulty level does.
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OpenAlias port for HyperStake -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10420461-
Expand RPC infrastructure and make daemon more and more lightweight - As I continue to use
my odroid as my main staking machine, I would like to make RPC much more like the QT wallet, but without the resource consumption. I think that a lot of us have Raspi's and other small arm based machines and that we should continue to make HYP the best coin to stake on these devices.
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MultiSend GUI for QT - MultiSend has been a huge success so far. It has efficiently replaced Stake For Charity and greatly expanded its capabilities. Now I would like to finish this project off by adding it to the GUI.