If you wish to help our project development, you are able to run and support your own seeding node, which will be included into seeds list. It’s quite simple:
https://github.com/CryptoManiac/novacoin-seeder
Tell me if you have any questions.
TestNet explorer added due to user request.
http://novacoin.ru/chain/NovaCoin_TEST
Please note that NovaCoin testnet has much faster life cycle than production network:
- nBits limit is 0x1f00ffff (in MainNet nBits limit is 0x1e0fffff)
- StakeMinAge is 2 hours
- ModifierInterval is 20 minutes
- CoinbaseMaturity is 20 blocks
- Target blocks spacing is 5 minutes
A little patch was applied to StratumServer, to improve 0.4.4 compatibility.
Testnet nodes started
novacoin.conf: testnet=1
Win32 P2Pool was rebuilt using current git snapshot:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/p2pool_win32_p2pool-11.4.2.zip/download
NVC client 0.4.4 update released.
Ubuntu:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/novacoin-0.4.4-ubuntu-lts-x86_64.tar.bz2/download
Win32 installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/novacoin-setup-win32-0.4.4.exe/download
Win32 nosetup:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/novacoin-nosetup-win32-0.4.4.zip/download
Mac OS X:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/novacoin/files/NovaCoin-Qt-0.4.4.dmg/download
Changes list is available here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=143221.msg2831785#msg2831785
Message with testing builds is deleted now.
NVC 0.4.4 client builds will be available for testing soon.
Already merged changes:
- Fix for integer division-related PoS rewards calculation issue (becoming active since 20 Sep 2013);
- The final correction to PoS ROI curve (1/6 ==> 1/3 switch since 20 Oct 2013);
- Upper limit for coinstake reward (will become active since 20 Oct 2013, description is available here);
- Private keys dump and import functionality (dumpwallet and importwallet RPC calls);
- User will be able to select wallet file for initialization by using -wallet=filename.dat option;
- The -walletnotify=cmd option, provides an opportunity to execute external script on new transactions;
- getbestblockhash RPC call added, also some getmininginfo, getinfo and listunspent improvements;
- novacoin: URIs support is active now;
- QR codes generation support is active now;
- Some optimizations and bugfixes.
P2Pool currently works well, that’s true. But there is a plan to restart p2pool shares chain after 20 Sep 2013.
New NVC protocol changes will be activated since this date, allowing us to remove ECDSA signatures for PoW blocks and 0.01 coin lower bound for coinbase outputs. So, P2Pool diff with upstream will become significantly smaller than diff of current P2Pool implementation. Also it will provide an opportunity to run public nodes without current limitations.
Source code is available at github, Linux & Mac builds will be published soon.
Changes list:
- Balanced PoS/PoW blocks weighting;
- No minimum limit for coinbase outputs;
- No ECDSA signature required for PoW blocks anymore;
- No fee required for coinbase transaction anymore;
- Built-in PoW CPU miner removed, now only PoS miner available in the wallet;
- getmininginfo RPC now able to calculate stake power.
Highlighted changes which will be active on MainNet since 20 Sep 2013.
And don’t forget about ROI switch at 20 June 2013, less than 4 days remaining.
