Digitalcoin has released it’s new client overhaul. This client further targets the effects of profit hopping pools and also attempts to combat the inflationary issues the coin the was experiencing. With a block reward reduction to 15 coins per block and an increased block time of 40 seconds per block, the rewards will be effectively reduced by approximately 60%. Also included in the update is an additional difficulty fix. Limiting the difficulty influxes to a maximum of 36% in either direction and increasing the retarget rate to every 108 blocks. This should stabilize the difficulty even further than the previous fix. The update must be performed by block 523,800 (Current block: 483,240).

This is a multi-faceted hard fork and as such it’s important that all DGC users update as soon as possible. Update Details

Rewards: 15 coins per block

Block Time: 40 seconds

Difficulty: Difficulty stepping further refined to 36% in either direction

Blocks to Retarget: 108 block retarget time (~72 min)

Other: UPNP support enabled, a new checkpoint is added, and the alert system has been updated. You must update before block 523,800 or the digitalcoin network will no longer accept your client.

You can download the latest client here:

Source: https://github.com/baritus/digitalcoin

digitalcoin Windows QT Executable: http://digitalcoin.co/download/digitalcoin-qt-v1.zip

Digitalcoin Forum Announcement: http://digitalcoin.co/forums/index.php/topic,194.0/

Best of luck to the always innovative, always thinking Digitalcoin dev team