Due to the ongoing attacks against the Electronero blockchain, we decided to fork to the CryptoNight-Fast proof-of-work algorithm. We are excited about this move, as it levels the playing field for the miners, and ensured that ASICs and NiceHash are not able to impact our blockchain. We have seen a healthy network and steady hash growth since the switch to CN-Fast. We exhausted several avenues to secure the chain, but continued to see attacks, so we opted to change the PoW, and we couldn’t be happier with the outcome.

Leading up to this decision and ultimate change of PoW, Electronero had been the victim of many attacks. We had invalid blocks hitting the chain, and we were under constant 51% attacks. During the time we were deploying the change to CN-Fast, we were under one of those attacks, which effected some users who may have been connected to a malicious peer, and for those users it may seem like we did a roll back of the blockchain. However, we did not roll back, we simply restored to the last block we could verify had correct PoW for the Electronero definitions.

To compile, build from master branch.

Else, run the release binaries provided.

This release marks a few updates to Daa (difficulty adjustment algorithm)

-Emission fork

-difficulty_target shortened to 60 seconds

-Block rewards doubled

-Restore CPU/GPU mining fairness

-Reduce Transactions Fee Multipliers

-Adjust fee relative to transfer_split

-Improvements to configurations in regards to previous versions

-CN_VARIANT 2 > version 14

-Introduce Non-NiceHashable Proof-of-Work (go ahead, burn your spend at your own risk!)

-Implement CN_FAST with inspiration from Masari and guidance from advisors

-Fix sync from 0

-Re-enable compatibility between GUI 12.0.0 and 12.0.0+ electronerod

-Crypto changes to stop double hash submission from programmable devices (supports fair mining)

-Removal of prehash check ‘bug’ (which encourages Monero fork attackers to submit many blocks at once

-Syntax and formatting

-Seed nodes expanded world-wide

-Emission based on version (voted version based)

Electronero switched PoW algorithm to Cryptonight Fast!

For experienced users:

Apply these changes your mining software:

for xmr_stak in config.txt use “currency” : “masari”

for CAST XMR add to your command line: — algo=8

for xmrig add this to your config! “algo”: “cn/msr”

These miners are sure to work!

https://github.com/masari-project/masari-xmr-stak/releases/

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