Quote from: gjhiggins on Today at 02:24:48 AM

Quote from: UsernameNumber7 on Today at 12:08:35 AM

Is there anyone here who can compile the Windows .EXE for Higgins New Wallet?

I adapted the Ravencoin build script - by replacing references to Ravencoin with references to Gapcoin. The resulting Windows64 binaries are here (and have previously been advertised as such):

https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin-core/releases/download/v0.1rc-alpha/gapcoin-0.16.3-win64-setup.exe

https://github.com/gjhiggins/gapcoin-core/releases/download/v0.1rc-alpha/gapcoin-0.16.3-win64.zip

(I did see your HMAC PR for v0.9 but as you observe, it is an ill fit with the 0.16.3 codebase)

The 0.20 client will remain unreleased because the code in 0.16.3 that enables a soft-fork segwit transition has been removed in the Bitcoin 0.20 client. This is because the Bitcoin blockchain is now irrevocably segwit-enabled and the soft-fork code has been replaced by a simple height switch. Without this soft-fork transition code, upgrading to the 0.20 client would unfortunately necessitate a hard fork for the current Gapcoin chain AIUI and according to the chainz explorer, the overwhelming majority of Gapcoin nodes are Gapcoin 0.9.2 vintage, likely original Windows clients and there seems to be little likelihood of that changing.

Cheers

Graham

The Windows64 binary Release Candidate will be added to Gapcoin Club (with relevant advisories) if that is appropriate at this juncture?

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It is no secret that Gapcoin Club has operated the majority of network listening nodes for a number of years now.

Whilst these nodes are still currently running Gapcoin v0.9.2 they were successfully upgraded to v0.16.3 for a couple of weeks testing on mainnet.

These existing nodes are also running Riecoin nodes, the respective Gapcoin on Tor .onion addnodes (several public Tor Bridges), as well as solo CPU mining some GAP!

- https://gapcoin.club/downloads/gapcoin.conf.tor.txt

N.B. All Tor v2 .onion's will cease to function on July 15th, 2021 as 0.4.6.x: Tor will no longer support v2 and support will be removed from the code base.

See: "Onion Service version 2 deprecation timeline"
- https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline

Bitcoin Core v0.21 supports Tor v3 addresses more fully with BIP155 supporting gossiping them over the network.

Currently, a target date of July 15th, 2021 would also seem to be a reasonable time frame to notify users to upgrade their Gapcoin wallets to a newer Gapcoin Core Project release.

Gapcoin Club will continue to run and upgrade our existing nodes, whilst introducing and announcing new Gapcoin mainnet nodes (and hopefully v3 .onion compatible addnodes).

The majority of the existing servers will then be retired.

- https://gapcoin.club/downloads/gapcoin.conf

As the network regains its user base the club will shift focus to launching our mining pool and establishing and running a block explorer.