Quote from: komodovpn on June 10, 2014, 11:22:46 PM

Cool update. Why would anyone lose faith in Kiwi so soon? You guys have been doing nothing wrong at all, unlike many of the new coins released in the same past week or so.

But I want to know, as someone who is not as tech savvy, what do these features do exactly?

Automatic Checkpointing
KiwiCoin URI Scheme
Time Travel Reduction

Hi kmodovpm,

We are about to update the main post with that info, you beat us to it

But for people that are interested right now the updates include the following;

Automatic Checkpointing
Instead of updating and pushing new code every time we want to add a new block checkpoint we can add this which means no more having to recompile new wallets/code every time we want to add a new checkpoint.

This will allow us to defend against TW attacks and 51% attacks to the network. It does however introduce some centralization to the system. This is unfortunate, but can be easily rolled back when the coin is mature enough.

KiwiCoin URI Scheme
Adding this allows users to add "kiwicoin:kiwicoinaddresshere" links to your websites etc and when you click on it, it will open up a payment box to the address listed etc.

Time Travel Reduction
Reduces the ability for attackers to try and force on very old blocks or very new block to try and change difficulty adjust behaviour. The ability to warp the blockchain time and also been limited. Blocks submitted more than 15 minutes outside of the blockchain's time will be rejected and other nodes cannot affect blockchain time by more than 14 minutes.