Over the last few weeks we’ve seen some network disruptions caused by a minority of nodes on the NavCoin network being unable to correctly process blocks containing payments by the NavCoin Community Fund.

We’ve already patched the first bug which was discovered as the cause of the issue and a patch for a second bug is currently being tested. However keeping in line with the NavCoin Developer Manifesto which places the security and stability of the network above all other responsibilities the NavCoin Core developers are proposing the network takes conservative action until we can fully review, retest and confirm the community fund payments are completely stable and fully operational.

These issues we’ve seen recently are only related to the Community Fund payments of our on-chain DAO fund. They are not caused by the standard UTXO blockchain activity and regular NAV transactions have no possibility of causing these network disruptions.

Therefore we propose a simple way to mitigate the problem;

We’re asking the NavCoin community to vote NO on any pending or future proposals and payment requests until the issue is concretely resolved.

We understand that the Community Fund is an important part of what makes NavCoin unique and the NavCoin Core developers are pivoting resources towards reviewing, retesting and reenabling Community Fund payments as soon as possible.

Experimental technology is always exciting and interesting to work with and what we strive to do in the NavCoin community is often way out on the bleeding edge of what is currently known to be possible. It’s not unusual for such advancements to be made by taking two steps forward and one back.

This set back is only temporary and sets NavCoin up to take two (or three) more steps forward as we learn and grow and look to extend NavCoin’s capabilities as a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation in the near future.