IMPORTANT CORE UPDATE !!!!!At 18:00 GMT, Thursday, April 19, 2018 we are happy to announce the release of 2.0 of the NYXCOIN core!This is a major release of the NYXCOIN. This release contains new features, improvements and bug fixes.
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Connections from peers/wallets with version lower than 2.0 will no longer be accepted.
Because of this, everyone must update at: 18:00 GMT, Thursday, April 19, 2018.
The source will be loaded on
https://github.com/nyxpay/nyx/ and
http://www.nyxcoin.org early.
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The most notable changes are:
- Align with btc 0.12;
- 2MB block upgrade(*);
- Transaction fee reduction 10x(*);
- InstantSend vulnerability fix(*);
- PrivateSend improvement which should allow user to have mixed funds available much faster;
- Remove support for local masternodes;
- Fix masternode payment score/rank calculations
- New rpc call "masternodelist info"- shows additional information about sentinel for each masternode in the list
- Various RPC changes;
- Lots of backports from Bitcoin Core and refactoring of our own legacy code which should improve performance;
- Experimental HD wallet with BIP39/BIP44 support.
(*)activates via DIP0001 activation
Who is required to update?
IT'S A MAJOR UPDATE, SO EVERYONE - END USERS, MINERS, POOL OPERATORS, EXCHANGES, AND MASTERNODE OWNERS MUST HAVE THE UPDATE!
How to Upgrade
Download latest release(2.0.0.0) from:
https://github.com/nyxpay/nyx/releases - according with your operating system
Unpack.
Shut it down.
Wait until it has completely shut down, then just copy over old files the new files.
Start it up.
Masternode upgrade:
Masternode owners must check if their configuration includes "masternode.conf" (according guide from web site ).
The protocol version are changed during this update, you will need to issue a start command from your wallet.
Windows or cold wallet setup with windows: you can issue the start command by simply clicking the button in wallet
Linux: ./nyx-cli masternode start-all
Nyxcoin Team