Feb 17, 2019

Rationale

Although we witness the noticeable increase in demand for ProgPoW adoption, Ethereum Foundation or its relevant organizations who have their responsibility to decide the detailed schedule for ProgPoW upgrade aren’t moving forward for months which is likely not to happen.

Therefore our ProgPoW developers have decided to force ProgPoW adoption by delivering ProgPoW enabled node software to miners and pools who support and signal ProgPoW adoption on blocks they mine, more than 60% of net hashrate now signals “PPYE (ProgPoW Yes)” on their block, however we convince other 40% of miners to signal PPYE on their block also. Our node software will support signaling ProgPoW yes vote til the ProgPoW is being enabled by a majority of hashrate.

By forcing the adoption, we also expect to agitate their interest in ProgPoW and also to emphasize the importance of asic resistant mining ecosystem. Therefore, we are asking the community to upgrade their nodes and mining clients that can support the latest specification of ProgPoW architecture before we hit the proposed block number. ASICs are ready to fall off the network if the upgrade happens without alter chain being generated. The alternative is not a good one in that funds, contracts, erc20 tokens, collateral loans, stable coins will be in danger of being split. Once split we expect they will lose their economic value since there will be identical tokens and contracts without replay protection.

Technical procedure and Roadmap

As a promised upgrade, miners need to upgrade their mining client, mining pools need to prepare their pool software and their node software for ProgPoW adoption, service providers and wallet providers need to upgrade their node as well.

Here is the list of proposed software needed for ProgPoW upgrade

Ethereum ProgPoW: https://github.com/ethereumprogpow/ethereumprogpow

Parity ProgPoW: https://github.com/ethereumprogpow/parity-progpow

Progminer: https://github.com/gangnamtestnet/progminer/releases

open-ethereum-pool fork from gangnamtestnet github: https://github.com/gangnamtestnet/open-ethereum-pool

Holders of ERC20 tokens, smart contracts, ethereum are advised to follow our blog post and twitter accounts for advance, please deal with the upgrade event with extreme caution.

Current status of support

Most of the mining pools are now in favor of ProgPoW support

Here is the list of known pools announced support for ProgPoW ( Scratched from https://www.etherchain.org/charts/progpow, it may vary time by time)

ethermine.org

f2pool.com

nanopool.org

2miners.com

whalesburg.com

altpool.pro

ethashpool.com

progpool.pro

List of service providers and mining pools will be updated once we receive an update from them, please contact with your wallet service provider regarding support of ProgPoW.

Reference

Learn more about ProgPoW algorithm on the following presentation by miss if.

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