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Hello KittehCoin Mining Pool Owners,

Thanks for supporting KittehCoin by operating a pool. We have released a NEW client for kittehcoin, we are distributing this to pool operators first. This client adds in the KGW difficulty algorithm as well as adjusting the hardfork block height.

It is CRITICAL that we get all pools to upgrade to this latest client ASAP. Please reach out to any pool-operator friends you may have.

The update process is just as simple as last time. All of the code for the wallet is posted to github (https://github.com/kittehcoin/kittehcoin) and there is a makefile.unix for unix systems.

Please back up your wallets before the upgrade, and for safety make a COPY (do not move, copy) your .kittehcoin data directory as a backup as well.

After this has been completed please build and run the compiled client and it will pick up right where the old client left off, all addresses, balances, etc will be maintained.

You can verify that the client has been upgraded by running this command: kittehcoind getinfo

You should see  "version" : 80602, in the output, this mean you have successfully upgraded.

If you have any questions please let me know, I am here to help. This change must be completed by SATURDAY 2/15 of this week or the blocks from your pools will be orphaned and rejected from the network.

Thanks very much for your support and cooperation in this upgrade!
Dan Wasyluk - Lead KittehCoin Developer

PS - Once you have upgraded your pool please post a reply with your pool address so we can give you due credit when we release wallets this weekend!

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Updated Pools:

• http://kittehcoin.securepayment.cc
• https://kitteh.247mining.com
• http://meow.pitythepool.com
• http://Hashco.ws
• http://meow.cutk.com
• http://meowpool.com/
• MiddleCoin
• http://kittehpool.net
• http://kitteh.nitro.org
• http://meow.hasher.ca
• http://kit.cipherpool.net
• http://meow.cryptohub.org
• https://meow.luckyminers.com
• https://meow.united-miners.com/

Updated P2Pools:

• http://p2pool.name:9566 (fee)
• http://solidpool.org:9566 (fee)
• http://taken.pl:9566 (fee)
• http://lovok.no-ip.com:9566 (fee)

I'm upgraded.  It seems to be re-indexing my copy of the block chain, is that correct?
http://kittehcoin.securepayment.cc

Yes the new client uses a new DB structure (levelDB) you will not be able to go backwards thats why we urge operators to backup their entire DB dir before upgrading. It should reindex up to the current block and then be all good to go forward, its basically doing an internal DB migration.

Thank you for upgrading so promptly!

PityThePool! is upgraded - now we just need miners :)

http://meow.pitythepool.com

Thanks guys! Keep the upgrades rolling, officially upgraded pools, this list needs to be longer!

Officially Updated Pools List:

• http://kittehcoin.securepayment.cc
• https://kitteh.247mining.com
• http://p2pool.name:9566
• http://meow.pitythepool.com

why u guys chaning so many things in such short periods. the coin will die i assume :(

All my 3 P2pool nodes updated to latest git
http://p2pool-eu.gotgeeks.com:9566
http://p2pool-us.gotgeeks.com:9566
http://rav3n.dtdns.net:9566

its more like: fixin so meow will survive ;)

Agreed!  Changing block rewards and KGW algorithm will prevent dumps on the exchanges by the multipools.  Price will steadily increase from here on out.

So many things? We have thoroughly tested everything. If you see development progress as an indication of a coin's death then... not sure what to say here  ::)


+1


You rock! Let's keep the updates rolling!

Officially Updated Pools List:

• http://kittehcoin.securepayment.cc
• https://kitteh.247mining.com
• http://p2pool.name:9566
• http://meow.pitythepool.com
• http://p2pool-eu.gotgeeks.com:9566
• http://p2pool-us.gotgeeks.com:9566
• http://rav3n.dtdns.net:9566

important!

Updated smoothly! Thanks for the heads up!

Too short of notice.

Seriously, you need to give more than 24 hours notice for a fork.

We do our best to make sure pool owners are the first to know. We have gave pool owners 5+ days notice on this, they should be well aware. We have been communicating (on all our channels- reddit, forums, twitter, FB) about this update since MONDAY. I even bought Ad space. Admittedly the wallet for pool owners was only ready 48hrs ahead of the forkpoint because blocks were found faster than expected (we cannot control this) but still- pool owners need to be on top of this stuff. I feel 5 days lead time was adequate, it takes all of 3minutes to upgrade.


Pool URL?


You rock, added!

The mining pool list on kittehcoin.info has been updated to reflect ONLY updated pools. As you post your pool has updated, you will be added to the list/main site.

Did a test with 500 MEOW, blackhole. Would not send coin there until they fix whatever is wrong with their site.

Getting back the the OP- updated with more pools! Website will be updated shortly too.

A little bit more time for pools would have been nice, why such a freaking rush, it's not like few days of warning would have changed things dramatically. My 200MH/s pool was stuck on the wrong fork for maybe 12 hours :( I blame no one else than myself, but I might have been able to see the update if there would have been more time.

I do apologize for the short notice- we were pumping messages out for 5 days ahead of the release, pools should have been on notice but I still understand the window to upgrade was short. Luckily the majority of the network moved over very quickly.

We had to move fast because honestly the coin was getting destroyed and multipools manipulating the forkpoint (unintentionally), it would have taken weeks to reach the old fork point. We (community and team) talked about shooting for a lil higher forkpoint but we did that last time and got screwed... its a hard decision to make, and even harder to make sure everyone knows. We tried our best and as always, have learned and will make clients available ahead of time for pool operators sooner next time.

What pool do you run? If it is a public pool we're trying to keep the list of updated pools current so post up your pool if its public. Thanks.

When I left the fork there was still 700MH/s on the forked network, so I definitely was not alone. It also wasn't that bad for us, I think the pool was only popular for 7 hours, and only last two hours we had more than 100MH/s on there. Unfortunate, but happens.

My pools is at https://meow.hash.so/ but it's currently down for maintenance ;) I need to nuke it up and start fresh, my miners will love me..

http://lovok.no-ip.com:9566 already running v0.8.6.2 (just got first reward minning on it by block 127001)

   Great been mining the wrong fork since yesterday with 20,000 mhs wasted and no way of switching the miners till at least tomorrow  :( !!!

What pool? We reached out to every pool that had an active "contact" page. We were late to release the binaries but were talking about this on twitter, IRC, reddit and kittehcoin forums for much more than 48 hrs before forking (4-5days spamming multiple posts per day, hard to miss- notice only a few pool operators here missed it). I do apologize for the inconvenience.

PM me an email address so we can get in touch with you, we directly email all pool owners who give us the info to contact them. Those who we don't have email info for we go pool-by-pool sending support emails, TWICE. Some pools don't allow support email and just say "apache license" when you click the support link in MPOS- thus we have no way to reach some pool owners at all.

We do apologize for the short notice, but as a pool operator you have some responsibility to stay on top of the news or if not- give us a way to reach you.


Thanks!, added to the list.

http://meow.coinedpool.com

You can still see 21438mhs in the pool i got aimed at your coin and was going to bring more :-(
I can't access them remotely right now either so there still hashing the wrong forkinghell.

Hit you up on PM. Definitely unfortunate and something that WILL NOT happen in the future now that I've added you to our pool-operators directory. Soon as you update let me know.

In the interim poor Jochem who runs luckyminers was on the hospital with a concussion when the news went out! Talk about bad timing :( https://meow.luckyminers.com/ has now updated and been added to the list.

The KittehCoin Team hopes that Jochem feels better soon!!

Avoid using P2Pool for now as it seems that it is not generating valid blocks for new version (was working before but since some time, blocks generated by P2Pool are not awarded in new version walllet, some shares generated by P2Pool includes more than 50k MEOW https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448003.msg5187612#msg5187612 ).

There is a new version of p2pool trying to solve this problem, I've already updated my node.

yeah shai_ from our team also pushed an update to our branch of the code- https://github.com/kittehcoin/p2pool similar to what has been applied elsewhere from the conversation I had with him..

P2Pool operators, please update to latest commit from https://github.com/kittehcoin/p2pool

There are already two nodes on this version:
http://lovok.no-ip.com:9566
http://meow-il.zapto.org:9566

you can mine there without worries as this nodes are 100% on new wallet.

Also

http://taken.pl:9566
http://p2pool.name:9566

and

http://solidpool.org:9566

updated.

some p2pools still did not update their p2pool change
it would be useful if we are all on the same version....

Problem is that for example Rav3n still uses old network in his version https://github.com/Rav3nPL/p2pool-rav (he only set network to persist false for now). I've send him a message, hope he will accept this changes.

Edit: Now I see there is already push of this changes into his version for two days not yet accepted :-(

Edit2: Rav3n commited changes just a while ago so we may hope that things will move now :-)

Edit3: Three Rav3n nodes listed here still on old network :-(

about 40MH/s came into p2pool from nowhere :)

p2pool nodes please update according to kittehcoin's git (IDENTIFIER+PREFIX especially)
there are still some hashrate on older p2pool which can be combined to a nice big pool

https://github.com/kittehcoin/p2pool

lately i prefer p2pools a lot more than MPOS banks (fees, DDOS, robbery).

is it really very good for the network ? if everyone runs p2pool will it be more difficult to DDOS?
with MPOS just need to DDOS a few big pools. with many p2pool nodes it will be more work.

Yesterday I've found node with most power in old network and asked them to update, seems they did. But keep in mind that this node is part of some sort of profit switching site build around p2pool so expect hashrate jumping.

P2Pool is doing very well now, generating blocks regularly, from officially updated pools list here, this nodes are ok:

http://p2pool.name:9566 (fee (http://p2pool.name:9566/fee))
http://solidpool.org:9566 (fee (http://solidpool.org:9566/fee))
http://taken.pl:9566 (fee (http://taken.pl:9566/fee))
http://lovok.no-ip.com:9566 (fee (http://lovok.no-ip.com:9566/fee))

avoid:

http://p2pool-eu.gotgeeks.com:9566 (last seen on old network, new wallet, days offline)
http://p2pool-us.gotgeeks.com:9566 (last seen on old network, new wallet, days offline)
http://rav3n.dtdns.net:9566 (still old network, new wallet)
http://p2pool.org (not in list here, old network, unknown wallet)

typical config for mining on p2pool:
cgminer --scrypt -Q 0 -o stratum+tcp://<MEOW p2pool node address>:9566 -u <your MEOW wallet address> -p x

thank for your info

Just looked at http://kittehcoin.securepayment.cc/ . As I understand, this allows you to solo mine at fee 50%. Unbeliveable. Or I'm missing something?

Thanks for this, sorry for the delay in updating been down with flu. Just updated the OP, will updated the website shortly. Thanks again.

Great, but seems that active links to fee info are lost  (only static text left).

I have restarted my node.
Looks like noone mining it on P2pool, last block 2 days ago?