DarkNetSpace 0.7.0.4 Upgrade Guide

darknetspace will be upgraded to 0.7.0.4 soon. The blockchain rule are changed with this upgrade: the maximal bytes of transactions and blocks are increased to 1M bytes from the 147000th block. The all nodes of darknetspace must be upgraded before this block, other wise the non-upgraded nodes will refuse the new generated blocks after 147000th and stopping renew blocks. A branch will be produced if a miner's pool do not upgrade.

Upgrade Method

Ubuntu node upgrade (including node,exchange,pool)

1. Backup the original block data,application folder,wallet sync file.

      cp -R ./dnc ./dnc_back
      cp  ./dnsd ./dnsd_back
      cp ./wallet.dnc ./wallet_back.dnc
      
2. Download the the linux applications from the link

      wget http://www.darknetspace.org/files/DarkNetSpace_Ubuntu64.zip

3. Extract the file to the corresponding folder

      unzip -o -d ./dnsd2 DarkNetSpace_Ubuntu64.zip
      
4. Launch dnsd

      cd dnsd2
      ./dnsd
      
5. Launch simplewallet

      ./simplewallet --wallet-file wallet.dnc --password 12345 --rpc-bind-port 37710

qt-dnsp gui wallet upgrade

1. 0.7.0.4 client will be released after 147000th blocks, do not upgrade before the block be generated.

2. The download link at that time

      http://www.darknetspace.org/files/DarkNetSpace_Win32_qt-dnsp.zip
      http://www.darknetspace.org/files/DarkNetSpace_Win64_qt-dnsp.zip
      http://www.darknetspace.org/files/DarkNetSpace-OSX64.zip
      
0.7.0.4 Changelog

1. Add proxy
    supporting socks5 proxy

2. Blockchain rule
   
     Implant Make Alias feature, it will cost 101 DNC each alias, 100DNC will be rewarded to miners and 1DNC to DNC team.
     Modify the rule of fee calculation, no more exceed fee issue.
     Increase the maximal bytes of blockchain to 1M bytes from 147000th block. fixed the "Transaction too big" issue.

3. dnsd

     Add height command to display current block height.
     Add alias command to display all aliases.
     Add 3 RPC json API, get_transactions, get_tx_pool, get_blocks_by_heights
     Add command line parameter: --enable-proxy 127.0.0.1:1080
     Add builtin command: enable_proxy, disable_proxy

4. simplewallet

     Add make_alias command to create alias.
     Add change_password command to change the password of wallet.
     The simplewallet will auto-save the data every 4 hours.
     Add RPC API get_incoming_tx.
     Fixed the simplewallet RPC mode stop to connecting the dnsd when it failed 3 times.


5. qt-dnsp

     Add Setting interface to display and save the configuration.
     Add Alias interface to display and create the alias.
     Add Change Password interface to change the wallet password.
     Add statistics data in the Network interface.