Back in the winter I mined a bunch of Pandacoin that I had forgotten about. I saw some recent discussion revolving around this coin so checked back to my wallet and while all the coins are there I'm having difficulty getting synced again. It tells me I need to upgrade the wallet but I'm having trouble locating the correct up-to-date binaries.

I realize there's been some confusion because of 2 Pandacoins?? Hopefully I was mining the right one! The logo on my pandacoin wallet looks like:


If someone can confirm this was the correct PND that would be great.

Also, say I want to transfer the funds to an exchange, do I need an up to date (synced) wallet to make the transaction if the balance has already been confirmed? I do see active connections to the network but I might just send the coins to an exchange instead of downloading new binaries if I can do this.

Thanks

[Technically]

Ok so I know it sounds silly at first but I was thinking with all the ASIC drama could it be possible for bitcoin to fork and begin using scrypt? Technically yes or no?

My thought was that a fork client would come out hard coded to switch to scrypt once block x is reached. There could be some benefits to this such as shaking off ASICs if you feel they may end up becoming detrimental.

Trying to keep politics aside here. I realize it would require at least 51% consensus and there's a whole set of other issues around forks. It also would need to be done soon as it will become hard (maybe impossible) to break control from ASICs once they control 51%. I doubt ASIC owners would want to use the fork client

In theory it is possible isn't it?

DISCLAIMER: I'm not fighting for or against this idea. Just presenting it for discussion as I always hear people worried that ASICs may end up destabilizing btc and that scrypt coins don't have this problem. (not saying that's fact but it's said a lot)