Dropping in for another update -- lots of progress since the last post!

The updated CasinoCoin client code has been written and has incorporated the latest Litecoin security features as well as QR code support. Most importantly, the issue with pool hopping that causes the CasinoCoin network to become stuck at high difficulty has been addressed in this upcoming update with the implementation of Kimoto's Gravity Well. Details about the Kimoto's Gravity Well algorithm in the post below.

I have done initial testing, and all basic features (ie. send, receive, solo mining, difficulty adjustment, RPC calls, QR code display, wallet backups/restore, wallet encryption, block re-indexing, etc) appear to be working fine. I will continue testing this evening and iron out a few things. In the meanwhile, the alpha version of the CasinoCoin 1.1.x client is available at the link below if anyone wants to review the source code and/or test out the update.

https://github.com/transcoder/CasinoCoin-Alpha
(this is for test purposes only -- the final source code will be available at the main CasinoCoin branch on Github)

Here is a link to the testnet blockchain that contains the genesis block in case any testers want to load it locally:
https://github.com/transcoder/CasinoCoin-BlockChain-testnet

As soon as testing is complete, I will build the Windows installer and Mac OS X client, and will upload the code and binaries to the main Github repository where everyone will have access to it. Soon after, I will coordinate with the exchanges, mining pools, game operators and sysadmins that are running the old version of the CasinoCoin wallet to let them know an update is available that requires a hard fork.

The hard fork is scheduled to kick in at block 230,000, which according to the block generation rate of the last 10 days, will kick in sometime in the middle of/late next week.