February 20, 2018Updates for this week.
- The numbers are complete for BTCH airdrop! Hush, Unity, and DEX holders have already been paid. Bitcoin holders are in the process of being paid right now. Instructions to receive your BTCH can be found on
btchush.org/airdrop.
- The HushList command-line has been added to CPAN and can be installed via CPAN Hush :
https://metacpan.org/release/Hush- The
hashReserve bug, or, 'why won't my wallet sync?'
This has been a fairly difficult bug to get to the heart of. Bitcoin Gold (BTG) was released late last year. It borrowed the Zcash (ZEC) Proof of Work (Equihash) but BTG decided to use a field in the block header that was previously unused - the hashReserve field. The hashReserve field defaults to zero. BTG decided to put the block height in this field. This made it incompatible with the Zcash block header. Since this field was previously unused, software wasn't reading the value in it. The value was assumed to be zero. So when BTG started adding the block height, hashes started coming up incorrect.
Months later, someone started using BTG mining software to mine other Equihash coins, like Hush. This injected the problem into those chains. Because of the incorrect hashing, nodes started getting banned.
To fix this, the Hush dev team created a fix that reads the hashReserve field (since it is no longer safe to assume it is zero.) This also fixes zcash upstream and every zcash fork that exists. Komodo and a few other Equihash coins have already applied the Hush fix. We expect this will also fix the ongoing problems with Cryptopia.
The fix is included in the
latest release of Hush, 1.0.13.
Here are the version [https://github.com/MyHush/hush/blob/master/release_notes.md]release notes[/url].
- The new swing wallet, due out within the next week, will use the updated release so if you use the swing wallet be sure to upgrade sooner rather than later.
- We have created some new links, to make finding us online faster and easier.
https://www.myhush.org/bitcointalk https://www.myhush.org/discord https://www.myhush.org/reddit https://www.myhush.org/twitter https://www.btchush.org/bitcointalk https://www.btchush.org/discord https://www.btchush.org/reddit https://www.btchush.org/twitter HushNG will utilize the latest release of Hush. Installing 1.0.13 will prep your system for installation of HushNG. If you are a dev interested in working on this project please let us know. We have a great core team and continue to seek new talent.
- We also continue our search to add professionals to our Marketing Team. If you have marketing experience we'd love to hear from you!
