Hey Tranz, looking forward to trying out HBN 1.5 beta, will give it a go next week.
I was wondering, and vaguely recall reading some mention of a hard fork coming when 1.5 is finished. Is this still planned/ accurate?
I haven't gone through a hard fork yet with any coins I use. Is there anything to concerned about it (i.e any chance of losing coins?) or is it pretty safe except for those people that are using really older clients ?
Thanks for your continued work on this great coin.
Thanks Glendall, always good to hear from you. Please let me know your thoughts on the beta 2.
Regrading the hard fork, yes it will be part of the final 1.5 version.
As with all hard forks, any coins you have pre-fork are safe and shouldn't be lost. The worst thing that can happen is a side chain can form with clients who didn't update in time. Their old coins again would be safe, but new coins, PoW or PoS mined, would not be valid on the correct fork, once they got back on the right chain.
Most of this will be mitigated with alerts being sent to old versions well in advance, and the the automated block checkpoints being issued. But there is likely to be some chaos. Hopefully it is minor..