February 2020

This last month has taken our project to new heights. We have released a mining algorithm that encourages global participation, welcomed many new faces to our community, and continued working toward advancing our privacy initiative. We are not yet finished, but as we eagerly move into March, the goal of decentralizing our network will soon be complete.

AstroBWT: One CPU. One Vote.

Our focus in February has been to test and deploy AstroBWT for use on the live network. As previously announced, we will hard fork on March 7, 2020 to allow CPU mining that will decentralize our network and fairly distribute rewards from mining. We are excited to bring further opportunities for participation and hope to see your continued support as we move toward our next major release, which aims to bring an unprecedented level of privacy to decentralized applications in the form of Fully Homomorphic Encrypted Smart Contracts (FHE-SC).

Below, you will find all of the necessary information needed to get ready for AstroBWT:

Hard Fork Details

Date: March 7, 2020

Time: ~0200 GMT

Block Height: 4550555

Required Software

Recommended: Network Snapshot

https://blockchain.dero.network (Download for faster syncing)

Helpful Resources

Additional Information

Following the scheduled hard fork, all miners will be engaging in “solo mining,” which means that there will not be any official pools available. There are plans to work with the community on creating pool mining software that supports AstroBWT, but none will be initially available. Below, we have provided some useful links for pool software developers:

Language-Specific Announcements

English

https://medium.com/deroproject/release-astrobwt-acab338884aa

Español

https://medium.com/deroproject/liberado-astrobwt-40a5fef623ce

ελληνικά

https://medium.com/deroproject/release-astrobwt-21df3f8d0530

Français

https://medium.com/deroproject/sortie-astrobwt-f1e863e2b761

Deutsch

https://medium.com/deroproject/release-astrobwt-938164d91a6e

हिन्दी

https://medium.com/deroproject/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80%E0%A5%9B-astrobwt-338802fab4c2

中文https://medium.com/deroproject/%E7%89%88%E6%9C%AC%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83-astrobwt-f5f2c0f2a37b

Development Tracking

Our current development pipeline includes the following items:

AstroBWT : Egalitarian Mining Algorithm (Deployed)

: Egalitarian Mining Algorithm (Deployed) Stargate: Fully Homomorphic Encrypted Smart Contracts (In Development)

— Welcome to a decentralized DERO.