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Hi is there a mac download for the new client? Want to make sure I'm all set up before the 19th!  Great work again dev team!

Hi is there a mac download for the new client? Want to make sure I'm all set up before the 19th!  Great work again dev team!

OK, I went thru this process and recovered my SDC...
But it only worked the 2nd time with (a) no password and (b) the BIP44 HD multi-wallet box unchecked.

Since NXT uses a 12 word mnemonic, SDC 24 word and SiaCoin's 29 word are probably overkill...

And it's hard to see why an additional password is necessary... other than to increase the complexity Devs adore and crave.

No question it's professional work, but if you make it more complicated than Bitcoin... people will just use Bitcoin.

Also, after 1000s of changes... the Settings STILL will not save the tx fee...
Which is no small point since you see this sloppy piece of business EVERY single time you send a tx.

So interestingly as someone who was not around during the PoW phase of Shadow I though I would look at how things played out.

1. ~20,000,000 Supply
Firstly notice the "~" this means "approximate" .. if you calculate total # of blocks * height the MAX SUPPLY was 19,952,120 (if every block was PoW)

2. Max Height = 50,000 blocks & 8 Hours PoS Min Stake
a. It is quite clear that at block 50,000, PoW would no longer be accepted by the network.
b. It is also quite clear that after 8 hours (>500 block maturity) you can "stake" your coins.

3. Claim that "chickenstrips" was official pool and that no other pools was present
Looking at the thread I see both of these claims as false.
a. "sdcoin" gave at least 2 hours notice before the start of mining
b. chickenstrips was available for pre-reg over 70 minutes before the mining started
c. second pool was available 60 mins after launch
d. third pool was available 85 mins after launch
e. etc etc
f. numerous people post that they were able to solo mine at launch

4. The big bad "solo miner"
I see nothing to suggest that the said address is a "solo miner"... Could it have been a select group of miners? like the Chinese ASIC that everyone wispers about in BCT? Could be who knows.
Can I say with absolute certainty that this address was a "solo miner"? No ... but I can equally not say with certainty if I had not already known that the "chickenstrips" address was a pool because both addresses show the same behaviours.
The suggesting that this was a "solo miner" is just "speculation at best".

5. The effect of 1,2,3 and 4 on the Coin Supply.
Like I said earlier, I was not around during the launch so cannot speak for what the state of the network mining was however what is clear is:
a. July 30th "sdcoin" announces that Max Height is to be reduced from 50,000 to 31,000.
b. At ~30,000 Block Height the Coin Supply was roughly 6.15M
c. Therefore if the mining had lasted the original 50,000 blocks the MAX SUPPLY would have been <10M due to the effects of the hybrid PoW/PoS mining. Infact in the blocks I analysed from the last few days of mining a large % were PoS.
d. Changing the max height requires consensus ... it is a hard fork. The miners/pools voted in favour by upgrading to that version. They were not forced to.


6. Unfair launch
You can make your own decisions about if this was a unfair launch or not; I have stated the facts above without any of the nonsense or other hidden agenda.

All of this info has been taken from the original thread + inspection of the blockchain.

...

Since NXT uses a 12 word mnemonic, SDC 24 word and SiaCoin's 29 word are probably overkill...
And it's hard to see why an additional password is necessary... other than to increase the complexity Devs adore and crave.

No question it's professional work, but if you make it more complicated than Bitcoin... people will just use Bitcoin...

After I did;
1. Save your wallet.dat and rename it.
2. Load the new Shadow 1.3.3.3 client
I opened the new wallet. On the left bottom it says; Shadow v1.3.2.4-1, where I expected to see 1.3.3.3
I downloaded the 1.3.3.3. wallet from http://aboutshadow.com/ and extracted it to a new map.

Is this correct or did I do something wrong?

[..]

GOOD LINKS LOOK LIKE THIS FOR NOW
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_win32.zip
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_win64.zip
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_linux32.zip
http://shadow.cash/downloads/shadow_1.3.3.3_linux64.zip

Due diligence:
Try to only download from the official sources like the officially stated websites and sdcoin account, but always double check them then too.
A blue link does not always mean thats where the url is going. Windows users can right click the link and copy it, then paste it somewhere to check its safe.

http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/windows32
http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/windows64
http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/windows (defaults to 32bit)

http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/linux32
http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/linux64
http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/linux (defaults to 32bit)

http://shadow.cash/downloads/latest/macosx

I just updated my wallet, and now I have only 4 connections. Does this mean the majority of the network hasnt upgraded yet?

I expect this to actually be fairly quick, images will not be stored on the blockchain and I suspect loaded on-demand ...
Lots of cool testing in the coming weeks and months no doubt.

@LongAndShort: I would like to say I am surprised but the truth is I am not .. what a shame!

I just updated my wallet, and now I have only 4 connections. Does this mean the majority of the network hasnt upgraded yet?

Lots of work being put into the wallet design by crz. If you have any suggestions for a page layout, he's open to them all. We were talking yesterday about ideas for the Receiving tab in the new GUI2.0 that he's creating.