OK guys we have a hard fork in place which will take place at block 25200 which is 2189 blocks away at the time I type this. (Halfway between the next 2 difficulty adjust points under the original code). As we're currently on a 0.127671 difficulty and still not meeting the 2.5 minute target I expect the difficulty to go down at block 24192 for the final leg towards block 25200.


What does this hard fork change?

This hard fork took inspiration from the recent hard fork to Mincoin which in recent days has proved very effective at keeping the difficulty at an appropriate value for the network to ensure blocks are solved at or around the target timeframe consistantly.

Once you are running the new version of GameCoin, from block 25200 the difficulty will be evaluated once every 48 blocks. This should be around once every 2 hours after the difficulty stabilizes for the size of the network. Also the difficulty will come down 4 times faster than it rises so this should ensure that we're not at too high a difficulty for too long in the event we get flash miners targeting the coin.


Gamecoin specifications (up to and including block 25199)

2.5 minute block targets
2016 blocks (3.5 days) to retarget difficulty
subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
~3360 million total coins
1000 coins per block
Scrypt based


Gamecoin specifications (Block 25200 and above)

2.5 minute block targets
2016 blocks (3.5 days) to retarget difficulty
48 blocks (2 hours) to retarget difficulty
Difficulty goes down 4 times faster than it goes up to protect against flash miners pushing the difficulty up too far.
subsidy halves in 840k blocks (~4 years)
~3360 million total coins
1000 coins per block
Scrypt based


Network Info

Default P2P port is 9776
Default RPC port is 9777


Windows - QT wallet

tyrion70 has once again kindly compiled a Windows QT wallet and you can get the download link from his blog here.

If you want to show your appreciation to tyrion70, please consider sending a donation to his GameCoin address:

GRDZb1gJWWXuDUM8JeZuKNMKRkaZFwnV9c


Mac OS X - QT wallet

Also we now have a Mac wallet courtesy of maxpower who has been spreading the Mac love recently in his [ANN] The Definitive List of Mac Altcoin Wallets thread. You can download this client here. One thing to note is that maxpower states that this client may not work on OS X prior to 10.7 Lion.

If you want to show your appreciation to maxpower, please consider sending a donation to his GameCoin address:

GYmHJ871jnynvoyjiZhcjC5bbdJGYxide5


Source Code

The current source code for self compiles can be downloaded from GitHub.


GameCoin P2Pool

Host: gme.p2pool.nl
Port: 8500
Username: Your GME Address
Password: Anything you like

Stats Page: http://gme.p2pool.nl/stats/

Share optimization for your hash rate:

For example if you have a device which outputs 100 khash/s you can add your Username as:


GameCoin Block Explorer

http://gme.p2pool.nl/chain/Gamecoins


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This is probably caused by people who cannot follow simple instructions:

Because there are checkpoints it should reject the litecoin blockchain but it seems it doesn't stop it from trying to sync to it every so often. I'm personally using the daemon on one computer and connecting to it via my internal network as the only peer via addnodes/maxconnections so that my QT wallet doesn't keep trying to sync.

There are 19447 blocks right now.

Oh, You should've seen the thing when the guy first released it, he had the denomination as FTC and the litecoin logo all over the place, I must've missed the tray icon when I was fixing it up.

Yeah, the dude that first released it was likely trying to scam the hell out of everyone and cash out, but the general opinion here seems to be that this coin has a cool name, so we've all chipped in a bit to let it live.

Is it like 600 more blocks into difficulty readjusts? Difficulty should drop a bit, if we can get through the first batch.
Yay 2 blocks 

We're thinking of working on a way of keeing checkpoints in an external file, so updates to checkpoints can be delivered without a recompile.
Eventually,the litecoin blockchain will stop creeping in once more people start running the new code.