Here is the current proposal for block halving:
https://imgur.com/BjOSufc

First 1M reward = 50BMB
Next 1M reward = 25BMB
Next 2M reward = 12.5BMB

Gives a total circulation of 100M BMB. I will be pushing a very major update to main net in the coming weeks and will release the nodes into the wild...so anyone and their mother should be able to run a node now. This is how the network grows up.

Unfortunately we have made optimizations that require us to restart the chain. We will, of course, maintain wallets that have been mined in the new genesis when this happens so miner totals will remain unaffected. I encourage you guys to continue mining and stress testing the infra. So far we have been getting less and less downtime.

I regret having to re-fork, but there just wasn't any other way possible to do proper block-halving as well as the other updates we needed in an elegant fashion.

Changes we are implementing:
-- Removal of transaction nonces and blockID storage within transactions -- this saves 12 bytes per transaction
-- Block Halving as described above
-- Improved difficulty calculations
-- Switching block mint time from 30 sec -> 1 min
-- Switching difficulty calc from once every 100 blocks to every 10,000 blocks (weekly)
-- Increasing max TX per block from 10K to 25K [more THROUGHPUT]
-- Block header verification in peer discovery (this was a MAJOR flaw in the last version) ... prevents sybill attacks as long as >10% nodes are honest in the network.
-- Ability to browse and view transactions in MemPool (Web UX)

No future forks will happen from this point on -- not that I have a say in the matter: once the nodes are running in the wild it is off to the races and no longer in my hands.

Thank you all for supporting my endeavor. It was a lot of work to write a new crypto codebase from the ground up -- especially for a single developer but I think it's finally coming close to release ready.

The next release will include:

MINER:
Windows binary + sources
Mac OSX binary + sources
Linux binary + sources

CLI WALLET:
Windows binary + sources
Mac OSX binary + sources
Linux binary + sources

NODE SERVER:
Mac OSX binary + sources
Linux binary + sources

Next up on the roadmap:

1. Release the Windows/Linux/MacOSX GUI Wallet
2. Improved Block Explorer that can show all transactions for a wallet etc.

Realistically these last two items will take until mid Feb to complete.