MaxCoin has been updated to reduce the total coin supply and the current block reward. The hard fork will take effect from block 140000, this Thursday evening.
The new specifications are as follows:
BTC 48 MAX per block
BTC A total of ~100,000,000 coins
The updated wallets, v0.9.0, are available via
GitHub or the
MaxCoin website.
What are the technical motivations for this protocol change that affects core properties of this currency with effects on more than one million dollars worth of value?