Dear Idena community,

We plan to release a new version of the Idena node tomorrow 19th of December after 14:00 UTC time.
It will be a hard fork. The miner status for all validated nodes will be deactivated.
Please be ready for an update.

Planned changes:
1. Invitation rewards will be paid during 3 epochs in a row proportionally to the invited person's age. The invitation rewards fund will be distributed as follows (starting with the next epoch):
- A reward for the second validation of an invitee is 3 times bigger than a reward for a validated Candidate.
- A reward for a Verified invitee is 6 times bigger than a reward for a validated Candidate.
Invitation rewards will be paid only if the invitation issuer is validated.

2. The validation date will be adjusted to Saturdays once the network reaches 9441 identities. The total epoch duration is limited to 91 days.

3. Flips distribution optimisation.

4. API-key parameter is required for the remote node.

5. Bugs fix

An additional announcement will be published in 1 hour before the release.