Fork Update (8/21/2018)

Austin here, and I wanted to go over a few things in regards to the fork. I have received many questions from users asking me if what they have read on Social Media is true, that the NewYorkCoin developers have decided to cancel the upcoming fork.

I am here to tell you that this information is false, and there has been no change in plans regarding the fork. The only update we currently have is that any users of the 1.3 wallet should immediately update to the 1.3.1 wallet ASAP to prevent any further network problems. Information on what miners and pools should do has been released as well, a few days ago the Dev Team noticed a hiccup in the network and responded accordingly with the following statement:

There is some subtle difference in the 1.3 code that is preventing the blocks created by 1.3 from being accepted by older nodes even though on the surface everything looks in order. We think there may be some feature of the fork code that is somehow sneaking in early, as a result, blocks created by 1.3 are being orphaned when peered with 1.2 (and lower) nodes.

Until we can find a solution to this problem, we need everyone mining to revert back to the previous daemon. Blocks mined on 1.2 and lower are accepted by 1.3 without issue so anyone running a 1.3 wallet will still accept blocks from the older code. The hard fork scheduled in the 1.3 code is not expected to happen before late October so we have a little time to fix the issues being presented. In order to prevent further disruption to the network and potential loss of assets, the Dev Team feels that miners rolling back to 1.2 or lower is the best approach.

I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused to miners and users alike, the issues we face now did not arise during our testing phase. Once we have the issues resolved we will issue a statement regarding the true nature of the problems and how best to move forward.

MrSlosh

Those who are currently using 1.3 need to update to 1.3.1 using the following link: https://github.com/NewYorkCoin-NYC/nycoin/releases/tag/v1.3.1.13. Please follow the instructions on the releases page and update ASAP if you are running a 1.3 wallet/node.

Again, any information found on Social Media about the Dev Team cancelling the upcoming fork is completely false. The definitive source for what the Dev Team has planned can be found at: https://nycoin.community/roadmap.html. Any other efforts or announcements outside of what's on the Roadmap should be construed as a community effort, not related to the Dev Team.

As always if you have any questions or concerns drop a comment below or drop me line on Discord! Here's to a productive week! Happy hodling!