Mandatory Update: ROBO v0.15.2

Download New Wallets ASAP

Since launching, difficulty spiked to 100.0 which resulted in the chain moving very very slowly.  This update should allow us to break free from such occurrences in the future.

What Will Change? The PoW difficulty code was rewritten so that it updates every four blocks instead of 1440 blocks.  It also adds a safeguard that attempts to lower difficulty when block times exceed 2-5 minutes.  If enough time passes (about an hour), difficulty will reset to around 0.05.  When a reset happens, a burst of coins should be mined network-wide, and difficulty should settle back to the 2 minute specification.

WARNING:The new system will go into effect on February 4th, 2018 at 9:20PM UTC.  If you do not update to 0.15.2 before this point, any newly mined coins will be rejected and other nodes will start banning you as a result.  If you want to continue mining, you absolutely must update to 0.15.2 before the date/time above.   This is especially crucial to those running full nodes... if full nodes don't update, they will reject and ban clients running the new version.  Your best bet is to just download before the time above and restart your nodes!

How do I know this will actually work?  Well... I've only tested in my local/private network on "testnet".  So far it's been working fine across a handful of MacBooks.  I can't say exactly what will happen tomorrow, but when the new PoW strategy goes into effect, I'm guessing that tons of coins are going to be mined making up for how behind we are now.  And if all works like it does in my local net, we'll be back to rolling with 2minute block times shortly thereafter!