Hey everyone, mainnet launch date is
12:00 PM CST February 8th, 2016. Some extra information
here. This will mean extra work completed on PoW pools and a simple PoS pool on launch. Hopefully now everyone can make their arrangements for the big day!
Sounds like tesnet has been a success so far which is good to here...
@_ingsoc Just popping your full post from the decred forum here as well...Guessing not everyone will click to read it over there.
Hello everyone,
Just a quick update to solidify a specific date and time for mainnet launch now that testnet has been live for a while. The original plan was to bring mainnet up on February 3rd, 2016, in the event that no serious bugs were discovered during the week of testnet. However, operation of testnet and feedback from users have made it clear that the network will benefit greatly from two distinct factors that require completion or work prior to the launch of mainnet. These are:
PoW pools - the project is currently assisting developers who are working on pools for PoW mining
PoS pools - the project will complete and release a basic stake pool for those interested in PoS mining
As such, the specific date and time scheduled for mainnet launch is 12:00 PM CST February 8th, 2016. The software will be made free and open-source at 12:00 PM CST February 7th, 2016 - one full day prior to the launch of mainnet. Hopefully progress on these factors will afford everyone a little bit more time to become familiar with the software and make arrangements for the launch day!
As always, thank you to everyone for their hard work and effort in helping others along the way!
Sincerely,
Decred Project
Good to hear that the binaries will be made available the day before @12:00 PM CST February 7th, 2016 as well... Saves me waking up @4am my time to get everything sorted.
Oh, thanks for bringing these very important issues to light rizz, you bastard.
Thats quite alright anonymous _ingsoc, no problem.
Don't bother thanking me, or even acknowledging me.
Oh, you didn't.
So i'm on many ignore lists here, idiots.
See what can be acheived?
If only you ignorers knew how much PoS I just rightfully earned for you.
More to come.