This update implements BIP148 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0148.mediawiki) which is a "User Activated Soft Fork" for Segregated Witness. This update is in response to two large unknown miners blocking SegWit activation on the Vertcoin network (https://vtconline.org/sf.html) despite >95% of nodes being upgraded and a clear desire from the community to upgrade.
Since over 50% of the network hashrate belongs to the "attackers", they will likely not update and not implement UASF, so this update should be treated in the same way as a Hard Fork. Old wallets will continue to follow whichever chain has the most work, and will only reorg to the SegWit chain once it has more work behind it. Thus, any fork will be temporary, but will likely exist for some time. Therefore, everyone should upgrade to this new wallet to ensure the stability of the network and reduce the risk of a fork.
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- 18.4 MB vertcoin-v0.11.1.0-linux-32bit.zip
- 17.2 MB vertcoin-v0.11.1.0-linux-64bit.zip
- 5.28 MB vertcoin-v0.11.1.0-linux-ARM.zip
- 30.2 MB vertcoin-v0.11.1.0-OSX.dmg
- 16.6 MB vertcoin-v0.11.1.0-windows-32bit.zip
- 17.4 MB vertcoin-v0.11.1.0-windows-64bit.zip
- 2.58 MB vertcoind_0.11.1_amd64.deb
- Source code (zip)
- Source code (tar.gz)
This release fixes a bug where the GUI requested 80GB of space for the blockchain and reduces this requirement to 2GB.
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This version fixes a bug where newly generated wallets could not be loaded by the client.
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This wallet updates Vertcoin to use the latest Bitcoin Core v0.13 base. Thus, it soft forks BIP34, 66, 65, CSV and SegWit into Vertcoin as well as the other BIPs included in Bitcoin Core since v0.8. The soft forks will start signalling compliance from block 675,360 and will continue to signal for a year. Once 75% of blocks over a 2016 block period have signalled, after another 2016 block period the soft forks will activate and old version blocks will be orphaned from that point on. Therefore it is highly recommended you upgrade your wallet and this update should be treated as mandatory. It is especially important that pools upgrade as we need at least 75% of blocks mined to be upgraded in order to activate the soft forks. Pools that do not upgrade could risk orphaned blocks after activation. Everyone else, including users and exchanges, should upgrade too to guard against forking after activation.
Remember to backup your wallet.dat before you upgrade your wallet. Failing to do so could result in the loss of all your coins.
Miners themselves will not have to do anything, but pool operators will need to upgrade their pool software to be compatible with the new wallet. We have a version of stratum-mining that is confirmed working. An upgraded p2pool version is in development and should be released soon.
stratum-mining: https://github.com/Crypto-Expert/stratum-mining
Development Fund Donation Address: VpBsRnN749jYHE9hT8dZreznHfmFMdE1yG
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Updates some stray references to Bitcoin in the GUI and the "About Vertcoin" icon.
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This wallet implements soft forks for BIP34, 66, 65, CSV and SegWit. They all start signalling compliance from March 1st. In order to signal SegWit compliance in your blocks, you will need to use an upgraded pool software that is compatible. wallet.dat files generated by this wallet are not backwards compatible with previous wallet versions.
SegWit compatible pool software:
stratum-mining: https://github.com/Crypto-Expert/stratum-mining
p2pool: https://github.com/ahmedbodi/p2pool-vert-dev
Others: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/