On March 9th we released core version 0.21.1.8 that laid out the foundation for what was months long worth of work. To briefly summarize that release, included was a re-work of the original bug identified in RingCT last year, faster node syncing, support for Taproot and among other additions, please read that article here for a full breakdown. This update re-introduced anonymous transactions on the Ghost blockchain. Privacy is central to everything we do at Ghost.
Upon the release of v0.21.1.8, some users experienced difficulties when creating new ANON transactions as well as broadcasting them to other ANON addresses or even Public addresses. Our development team and cryptographers quickly found the reason for this blockade, and worked on a hotfix to the underlying problem.
With the above complication in the RingCT protocol being resolved, core version 0.21.1.9 introduced this hotfix allowing full non-restricted broadcasting for new ANON transactions. After its release, the blockchain quickly observed users exercising the RingCT protocol with some of these transactions having a ring size of 32 signatures! That’s 21 more ring signatures than Monero’s current standard ring size.
Moving on with development, our team has been busy creating a new self hosted cold staking pool written in Python. Currently in place is Ghostman. That being said, this new version offers anonymous staking with various levels of privacy for the user. This is a groundbreaking technical breakthrough in the world of privacy focused blockchains. We are very excited to release this development here very soon, so please stay tuned for further details.
Among other roadmap deliverables being worked on in the background, Ghost has just undergone a hard fork at block height 458743. This hard fork introduces the groundwork to be laid out for automating Ghost Veteran Rewards while also solidifying the transmission of subsidizations. This is a huge step forward in further decentralizing the Ghost blockchain until we are ready to release this deliverable and also come out with on-chain governance.
With the hard fork being undertaken, a new core version has been released as well. Yes, a third core in one month. We apologize for the amount of updates being released in such a short period of time, but success is unyielding. Furthermore, ALL users MUST update to this new core, version 0.21.1.10. Please download and update immediately. The new core can be obtained here:
https://github.com/ghost-coin/ghost-core/releases/tag/v0.21.1.10 . Users who are on the desktop wallet can simply close their wallet and re-open it for the new daemon to be downloaded. Stay tuned for more exciting news coming next month!
Source:
https://ghostbymcafee.medium.com/ghost-eom-update-march-31-356328b66a24
