ANNOUNCEMENT


    It is with great pleasure we announce the immediate release of Mincoin Core v0.13.0.

    This is a mandatory upgrade which includes security enhancements and several new features.

    The network will undergo a protocol upgrade for BIP66, BIP65 and the CSV softfork (BIP68, BIP112 and BIP113) with this release.

    The protocol upgrade will take quite a while to lock-in and become active.
    Therefore, we have lots of time for promotion and bounties.

    We hope you enjoy this new release as much as we enjoyed making it.

    And for the final good news, our testnet is already fully functional with the new protocol and has also been upgraded to support SegWit.
    Feel free to test all of your NextGen applications on the testnet and don't hesitate to ask for some tMNC.

    The Release Notes are comprehensive as there were many changes between the upstream 0.8 branch and our rebase to v0.13.0.


POOLS AND EXCHANGES AND SERVICES


    As of today, Trade Satoshi is aware of the upgrade and has put Mincoin into maintenance mode.
    Mining-Dutch is aware of the upgrade.
    NLPool is aware of the upgrade.
    Bill's bot in ##altcoins on freenode is aware of the upgrade.
    CryptoBetFair has completed the upgrade.
    The tipbot on the discord server has completed the upgrade.
    DiklopiJo's block explorer has completed the upgrade.

    We are still awaiting acknowledgement from 803Mine and BlockMasters about the upgrade.
    We have not yet reached out to BiteBTC.

    Transaction fees remain the same.
    The minimum network relay fee is 0.00005 MNC.
    With this release, dust is 0.00002730 MNC.

    New Feature - Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets.

    The best way to upgrade is with a fresh installation.
    Most users will want to do this to take advantage of the HD Wallet feature.

    If you have a second computer then it should be simple to start with an empty data directory, install Mincoin Core v0.13.0 and then transfer your mincoins from the old wallet into the new wallet using your other machine.
    Always shutdown Mincoin and make a backup of your data directory before upgrading.

    On Windows, the data directory is in %APPDATA%\Mincoin.
    On macOS, the data directory is in ~/Library/Application Support/Mincoin
    On Linux, the data directory is in ~/.mincoin

    This new wallet is going to rebuild the blocks ondisk in a new format and so it will look like a full sync from genesis on the first startup.
    We have built a linear bootstrap.dat to help speed up the process.

    Tutorials and other automation including deployment routines will come in time.

    Be advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

    One of the easiest ways to deal with moving out of an old wallet and into a HD Wallet will be to temporarily deposit your coins somewhere else and then withdraw them into the new wallet after the full sync has completed.

    Look for us on the Mincoin Discord Server to receive technical support.


SURPRISE


    We now support ARM architecture (both 32-bit and 64-bit).
    This means you can easily use your Raspberry Pi to run a Mincoin node.


Best Regards,
-The Mincoin Core Development Team