Maybe that's because the wallet has a chat room, and Chinese just hang around there. Everything else (like twitter) is banned in China, so they just use the wallet for chatting, and produce the volume as a side product :-)

It's called hard fork because you're forcing users to update their clients. If 50% of the clients still run the old code they can create their own blockchain (that's called chain split), because after block X old clients will stop accepting blocks from new clients and new clients will stop accepting blocks from old clients. The blocks will be rejected because of the difficulty difference (which will be different between old and new clients most of the time).

Here are lines of code in CBlock::AcceptBlock() that will cause this effect:

    // Check proof of work                                                                               
    if (nBits != GetNextWorkRequired(pindexPrev, this))
        return DoS(100, error("AcceptBlock() : incorrect proof of work"));

So if more than 50% run the old client by the time of block X, it's the people running the new client will be left out.

(Sorry, I was not sure what details you were expecting in the answer. Hope this helps.)

It's possible: before height X calculate hash with old function, after height X - calculate hash with new function. The reasons why other altcoins don't do it:
  (a) hard forks are very annoying and risky, especially when the coin is already widely adopted
  (b) most altcoins don't have devs competent enough to do the change.

Mooncoin is still in its infant stage, we're forced to do a hard fork soon, and we have Deacon who's able to do the change (the complexity of the change is not higher than switching to gravity well). So I think we should consider it.

Great news!

I have a suggestion. Guys, if you support it please speak up!

I was looking into Vertcoin lately. It looks very impressive that they gathered so vital community so quickly. Their coin uses this Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor, which happens to be a very powerful hype and attracts a huge crowd of ASIC haters. Their reddit base grew by 600 in just one day and continues to grow at a surprising rate.

I was thinking: as Mooncoin is going to have a hard fork soon anyway, maybe we should consider switching to Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor. In this case Mooncoin will be the first coin to adapt the new technology and will attract Vertcoin adepts. Also, Mooncoin will be unique in a way that it combines the hypes from two successful communities (Doge and Vertcoin).

I'm pretty sure, other altcoins are thinking in this way too, we must not stay behind.

What do you think, guys?

I'm totally for this logo too. Fayens is a genius artist! I'm looking forward to seeing more works from him.

Fayens, you should definitely post your works on reddit!

A list of current donors is circulating in this thread, you can write yourself in. I think oudekaas is going to contact the professor about it (read a few messages above). I suggest to receive the organization's consent first and then make a decision about the exact address where to transfer moons to.

So, guys, instead of boasting your MOON stakes, donate to the space camp.
Doges are already sending the second team to Sochi, and we cannot fund our first donation.

Mooncoin has $2,763,861 cap, we just need to donate roughly 1% of the cap and make a great publicity of it. No need to explain how it will help Mooncoin. It will help the cap to grow much higher than 1%.

If we don't do anything, other coins will come, with smarter marketing, and eat Mooncoin's cap to zero. And we will lose much more than 1%.

So give your moons first, and only then collect profit. If you're greedy and practical and don't think about children and the romantics of space, consider it an investment. There is nobody except YOU who can drive Mooncoin up. From rational point of view you really don't have a choice.

So go now and donate to space camp!

Donation site: http://www.spacecamp.com/scholarshipfund

Current donors:

1. adsoyo - 200,000.00 MOON
2. madcoin - 250,000.00 MOON 500,000.00 MOON
3. Fayens - 2,250,000.00 MOON
4. eskamilio - 300,000.00 MOON 600,000.00 MOON
5. FiatKiller - 1,000,000.00 MOON
6. DRobert - 250,000 MOON
7. nosf009 - 250,000 MOON
8. vegus - 1,000,000 MOON
9. mooncointalk.info - 1,000,000 + MOON
10. b4dger - 100,000 MOON
11. puvar - 250,000 500,000 MOON
12. Wekkel - 1,500,000 MOON
13. rtopz - 100,000 MOON
14.
15.
16.

TOTAL: 9,250,000 MOON

Copy/Paste The list,donation site, and add yourself (for donation) it will keep the list self organised and clean.

Test your bitcoin-qt.exe, it shows the same. It's false positive.

Has anybody contacted their executive director about posting a MoonCoin address for donation? The contact is there: "Jennifer Crozier, Executive Director, at (256) 430-6702, or email jennc@spacecamp.com".

If we make them post a MoonCoin donation address, it will be a huge progress. I guess somebody needs to assist them with that. Probably come personally to their office and show how to use the wallet, and then how to exchange it to USD.

Dogecoin has virus too

Here it is:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/44d08fce90ac62ef22280102fe15d380915a5acb64f1e7e142d8d1bf1de9d40c/analysis/

EDIT: And even Bitcoin: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/be2e92b6cabd6444f752da73c70cb189823ee5b8b04ac1949d08f2b020138c3d/analysis/

Guys, instead of panicking go to the downloads page (http://download.mooncoin.info/), take the files and check them yourself at virustotal (https://www.virustotal.com/en/).

And then decide for yourself whom in this forum you trust.

Just tell them about doge and bobsleigh. They probably heard about it, so they'll believe that it's real. Tell them that Mooncoin market cap is already $4,000,000, and we want to donate $20,000 to them, just to make some kid's dream come true.

It's a cryptocurrency time. Persuade them to join the trend.

I can trust you, no problem. But for the best chance of success I would suggest the following.

1. You call the organization's executive, tell them about Mooncoin and ask them to create a wallet.
2. They publish the wallet address on their site.
3. We advertise it everywhere.
4. All Mooncoin holders transfer their MOONs to that wallet.
5. We help them to convert it to USD, if they cannot do it by their own.
6. Success.
7. Profit.

I'm willing to donate 250,000 MOON for the space camp.