PSA: Users, (solo)miners, exchanges/merchants, and pooloperators must be on 0.9.x (preferably 0.9.2) in advance of the hardfork otherwise you will get forked/booted off the network. If you are mining on one of the following pools, please contact your poolop immediately or switch to another pool.
Approximately the 23th of March there will be a hardfork on the Monero network. Most pools have upgraded, but some have not yet. If they don't upgrade before the hardfork they will get forked/booted off the network. As a result you will miss out on revenue if you are mining on these pools. Thus, if you are mining on the following pools, please contact your pool owner as soon as possible and urge them to upgrade. Alternatively, you can switch to a pool that is on the right version.
FYI: You can plug the blockheader of your pool into "
http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/hash_of_blockheader". The minor_version must show "minor_version: 2". This means that the pool is on the right version. If it shows "0" or "1" the pool is on an outdated version. An example of a pool on the right version (Monerohash):
http://moneroblocks.info/api/get_block_header/2a88740443bf654e595bba7061509e6a3a80623da5de2478c4a90b45454a7fa8List of pools that haven't upgraded yet: List of pools that have upgraded:You can find most pools here:
https://monerohash.com/#networkSome of the aforementioned pools are listed there as well. If you are switching, avoid the aforementioned pools.
Binaries:Monero v0.9.2 - Hydrogen Helix - released! (Urgent and important bug fixes for the upcoming hard fork)https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.2 will do shasums / gpg signed mesage tomorrow
Information from Github:
This has urgent and important bug fixes to 0.9.0 Hydrogen Helix
- Major performance and size improvements to the LMDB database implementation
- Urgent and important bug fixes for the upcoming hard fork
- Huge bug fixes to the database hard fork handling
- New simplewallet flag to restore from keys
- Initial work on a wallet library / API
- Updated in-source block headers
General hardfork information:Background:
https://forum.getmonero.org/4/academic-and-technical/303/a-formal-approach-towards-better-hard-fork-managementWhat are the change(s) with the upcoming hard fork on the 20th of March?
- Blocktime is bumped from 1 to 2 minutes. See:
https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2401/increasing-the-block-time- Minimum blocksize is bumped to 60 KB. See:
https://forum.getmonero.org/20/general-discussion/2409/increasing-the-minimum-block-sizeA big advantage of this is that current individual transactions that sometimes won't go through (because they are a bit above the median due to many outputs (e.g. dust), or the daemon / MyMonero rejects them for some reason) can easily be included in the block without incurring a penalty. Above is a bit of a blunt explanation, I am sure one of the core-team members / developers could give you a more detailed explanation.
- Finally, the recommendations from the MRL team stated in MRL-0004, of which the minimum mixin >= 3 is probably the most salient. See:
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdfP.S. Due to variance the hard fork will likely be on the 21th or 22th of March. A specific block height was determined for the hardfork, not a specific date. The specific blockheight for the hardfork can be found here:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/blob/master/src/cryptonote_core/blockchain.cpp#L83// version 2 starts from block 1009827
P.P.S. As long as you are on any 0.9.x version in advance of the hardfork you are fine.