We are not sure what happened with Terracoin but all we can say it was not handled great.
No warning to services using it, just a webpage update, not even a forum thread for discussing the issue and helping others resolve it.
So our current status as of updating is: no transactions are confirming - despite using the latest git tree.
Who writes terracoin ?, is there a thread for this discussion already ?
active services operators, and interested users joined the mailing lists, where this was announced (both users and announce lists)... (if not ... they should if they really care)
quote from terracoin-announce ml :
Subject: [Terracoin-announce] build 0.1.3-29 available
Hi,
Urgent, mandatory build is now available on our github repository,
windows builds were uploaded to sourceforge.
This update will bring back a shorter period used in difficulty
computation, until a better algorithm is implemented, making the network
resilient to the huge hashrate spikes we recently saw.
changelog: [urgent] dirty difficulty computation update
- switching to a shorter averaging period.
- should provide faster diff adjustments, while keeping *4 cap.
- mandatory at block 101908 (chain should again be 'stucked' then,
seeing current hashrate growth)
windows download link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/terracoin/files/SatoshiClone/terracoin-0.1.3-29-win32.zip/downloadSorry for the two consecutive mandatory updates.
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TRC.
This message was less detailed than previous messages, because of the 'emergency' aspect i guess, but it was announced...