Hard Fork Ahead, v9.0.0! Dark Gravity Wave goes into effect on block 34140 (Saturaday about 1PM).

I'm really happy with my current implementation of DGW, it seems to be vastly improved over KGW. It uses multiple exponential moving averages and a simple moving average to smoothly adjust the difficulty. We've had huge fluctuations in testnet and it's dealt with everything perfectly.

This implementation also fixes all known exploits with KGW, so no more 10k+ difficulty blocks out of nowhere.

Here's the commit if you're interested:

https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin/commit/07c99052edc617975cdcbe4482e02c52e2d1fbf5

To update, just download one of these:

Source: http://www.github.com/evan82/darkcoin
Windows QT: http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoin-qt.exe
Ubuntu QT: http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoin-qt
Ubuntu Daemon: http://www.darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoind

I'll start messaging all of the pool operators, exchanges and everything. Thanks!

** Edit: Apparently the block explorer isn't updating and I calculated the target block using that, so it's a day sooner. Sorry about that **