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Re: [ANN] DigitalNote [XDN] - New PoW + Difficulty & Updates
by
surinserver
on 01/07/2018, 21:07:47 UTC
Minergate will update today but it looks like they haven't "flipped the switch" yet to the new PoW on their poolside front end.  

Can you confirm if Minergate have "flipped the switch" yet? Thank you.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: DigitalNote must refork because although the post-fork difficulty was hardcoded to be lower to allow for GPU miners it was still too high.  This happened because we estimated the difficulty with the understanding that Minergate would support the fork.  They pulled a fast one on us yesterday and told us that they would not be supporting it even though they said that they were previously (all the way up to fork date!).  This caused our estimated post-fork difficulty to be much too high for the actual hashrate, effectively stalling the chain.  We are still in talks with Minergate so they may change their mind but in the meantime the dev team has decided to refork with a lower difficulty to keep the chain moving. It's a very simple change (although very important) and all funds are safe etc.

The exact refork height is now block #669369 which is in less than 24 hours.  We have sent the new code and binaries to all exchanges, pools and wallet services.  Please download the new core below and support the coin by mining it when we fork.  The difficulty will be fairly low post-fork until it adjusts upward so it should be very fruitful for GPU miners.  You must update or you will be on the wrong stalled network.  Thank you for understanding.  Beware if you mine on Minergate because you are not on the real chain anymore but rather the old one that is able to be manipulated and exploited (until further notice).

It is very important that you update to GUI v1.0.15c or CLI v5.0.2 to ensure that you are on the correct network.  Links below:
https://github.com/DigitalNoteXDN/digitalnotewallet/releases
https://github.com/DigitalNoteXDN/digitalnote/releases


Updated my wallet and seems like I'm on the right side of the fork  Smiley
I hope we will be able to push XDN in the right direction again. All of luck to the dev!