Senter Reinhardt:
Hey folks!
I have some good news with some important details. Please read!

About 4 hours ago the hard fork time for Peerplays passed. This was the deadline for all witnesses to upgrade their nodes. Pretty much everyone was set except for EducatedWarrior. I think he has some personal things going on with his family right now and has had a hard time keeping up. He had a week to do so and most of the other witnesses upgraded in a few hours. From my experience he's a good person and has good intentions but you should consider updating your votes for who is serving you today.

That being said when the fork time passes the network will continue on as usual. If someone makes a wallet both the new code and old code will handle it. If someone moves PPY both the new code and old code can handle it. Nothing exciting happens to this point. Only when an operation happens that the new code understands and the old code doesn't does the network actually fork.

Around 3 hours ago (1 hour after hardfork time) the guys at Blckchnd (one of our most solid witnesses) came along and kicked the hornets nest. They executed a command to make a new sports betting event. Something the new network knows how to do(!!!!) but the old network doesn't. For the first time in a long, long time the Peerplays network forked in two.

Witnesses instantly found out if their systems were properly configured as their servers either went with the new network or the old one. XTar had an issue that he is fixing and Educated Warrior fell off the new fork because he wasn't upgraded. There was a little hiccup that caused everyone to hold their breath a bit but right now we have over 86% participation on the new network and will be running over 90% shortly.

This is fantastic news!! Peerplays mainnet can now support both BookiePro and the affiliate program. I love it.

Senter Reinhardt:
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BUT(!) I encourage you to give things a day or two to settle. We are currently checking with exchanges to make sure all is well and none of them are hooked to the wrong fork. We are also working to make sure the person who runs the peerplaysdb block explorer tweaks it to get it following the new network fork. It's currently on the old fork.

I think it would be a good idea to leave your PPY where they are as far as exchanges are concerned until they report in that all is well. LiveCoin has been offline for weeks now, so no issue there. I think RuDex/Bitshares is probably fine since RuDex is run by the same folks who run the BlckChnd Witness for us. They should be fully up to date.

The new exchanges we're checking in with. I'll let you know as soon as I know things are solid. No harm in trading on them but for the time being I wouldn't move PPY in or out of them until we make sure all is well.

Senter Reinhardt:
Small update for everyone...

In the end everyone pulled through and we have all witnesses on board with the new upgrade to Peerplays. Peerplays mainnet has now been smoothly chugging for about 12 hours and in the end we got a full 100% participation. I was worried about EducatedWarrior there for a bit but in the end he came through.

Also, Jesta, who was an original Peerplays witness but left the team a while back... upgraded/updated the peerplaysdb.com block explorer so that's up and running and fully sync'd to the new chain. Some of you may know Jesta from the larger graphene world. If you talk to him, thank him for all the support he's given to Peerplays.

Finally, we're still working on getting reports back from the exchanges so I still encourage you to not move your PPY on/off exchanges until further notice. Shouldn't take long I'd guess. Well, except for Livecoin... We'll continue to work that.

Anyway, it's been a great day. This is a HUGE milestone for Peerplays. Next step is to get BOS running on mainnet. Super cool.