UpdateWe were planning to implement a hard fork at block 100,000 to activate a fix for the PoS overflow issue and also fork in the masternode network and other features. We are running behind schedule with the wallet and will push the hard fork forward to block 110,000 (roughly 13 days from now (which is block 92,924 at the time of writing this)). This will take us to Sunday 15/05/2016 at around 1630 hours (GMT). We will make every effort to release the new wallet at least 7 days ahead of the hard fork, so around 08/05/2016. We will announce this here, on Twitter, on the Blog, on the website and Facebook and contact the exchanges directly. We also need to update the seed nodes and Tor nodes and the block explorer. There should be plenty of time for everyone to get the upgrade done.
As you can see in the block explorer, we are testing the new wallet as we speak:
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HEREI will explain the issue that is seemingly taking a long time to sort out. We are changing the PoS system, not just the overflow fix but the reward reduction schedule as we had to find a satisfactory way to reward the masternodes and compensate for the low stake due to the overflow bug. So the updated specs. are as follows:
TOTAL NUMBER OF COINS: 100,000,000 (100 million)
All the coins were generated in block 1
Proof-of-Stake reward scheme: 15% annually reducing by 1% every 250,000 block until the reward is 1% annually (after about 7 years)
Masternode rewards: 15% annually (not reducing)
Masternode collateral: 200,000 MOJO
Target Block Time: 1 minute (real world average is around 65 seconds)
Difficulty Retargeting: Every Block
Min Stake Time: 24 hours
Max Stake Time: 30 days (after 30 days your stake weight will not increase)
Max Coin Supply: 160,000,000 MOJO after 10 years (estimate)Link
HERETo be able to test the staking, the test wallet needs to run for 24 hours for the coins to mature before they start staking. We have then had a few bugs to iron out with the staking and every time an invalid block has been submitted to the network the wallet has been banned and we have to make adjustments and wait another 24 hours etc. This is why the testing is taking so long. The actual coding is there, it's a matter of minor adjustments and testing. I hope that makes sense. We do not want to take any short-cuts and we want to make sure that everything works as it should.
The new reward scheme will compensate for the lower than expected initial stake rewards without inflating the coin supply. The new reward scheme will over the course of 1-2 years provide a higher return for long time stakers and will make it increasingly difficult to obtain the collateral for a masternode. We believe this scheme is a good balance between value generation / coin supply / inflation.
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