Over the past 5 years of Pigeoncoin a typical month saw around a 31MB increase in the blockchain, around 1MB a day. In June this number grew to 13.5GB and in July it grew to 23.97 GB and the month is not yet up. This patch does not remove the close to 40GB of extra space taken up on the blockchain, but it does make it more expensive to do what has been happening in June and July. What happened was someone filled up most blocks with as many tiny transactions as they could stuff in there.
Patch Details
- Increase the min fee per kb to 0.1 PGN
- Fork activates on block 2,722,924 (around 2023-07-26 10:37:59 ET / 2023-07-26 14:37:59 UTC)
Installation Procedure:
It is always recommended to back up your wallet.dat before upgrading, but beyond that there are no special upgrade instructions for this version.
NOTE: If you are upgrading from a version OLDER then 1.18.2.0, you can still upgrade to this version directly, but follow the wallet conversion process as outlined in the 1.18.2.0 release notes.