DEVS,

Since it seems I like to write messages in sets of three, this one is for you.

I'm going to ask for a minute core change that should be totally doable and will not change anything except for possible turmoil later.

What I'd suggest is changing the vote of sustain and last set of blocks in limit phase to also be 1024 instead of just upto 8.

1024/8=128

There will be many people who will not change their vote properly at the proper time.  This may or may not cause problems with blocks or voting. However, without changing any fundamental structure or intention of the coin you could take the vote count used up to 1024 and divide it by 128.  Thus a vote of 1024/128=8 which is the upper range you intended.  Your going to be dealing with decimals any way you cut it so this will just make the transition easier for those running GPU miners which is most people.

Is this something you would at least consider to make the transition easier?

Also, could you please address the wallet issue with OpenSSL and let us know what version of the lib you used and if a new update is in the works if needed?  It doesn't come across well to not comment on this especially when bitcoin forum has had a "news alert" at the top of the forum for a while now concerning this.