Ive downloaded and installed the new wallet on windows 7 32bit and it works. Should it start staking blocks its missed from last week? Its still showing the weight
It will approximately monday. The code is set to change at block 506500, after which staking should resume. Reason is because it IS a hard fork, it gives everyone time to get the new wallet, sort any problems, etc. The new wallet will work just fine for everything but staking prior to the fork, and after that all of your weighted blocks should start staking.
Given the long interval while it was getting fixed, there will probably be quite a few orphans and a lot of competition for stake in the first few days past the fork, so nobody panic if you see higher than usual orphans.
Again, just to make sure everyone knows, no stake weight has been lost in this fix. What it does is reduce the difficulty to stake significantly, and there's a patch going forward to make sure this particular incident can never happen again. Everything should be fully functional as of block 506500.
Those of you with the .dll issues on Windows, it is being addressed. The smart guys have gone to bed, so I'm guessing sometime tomorrow. Please post up any problems here, everybody involved in the fix is paying attention. I don't know if there's a Mac wallet in the works or not, but if anybody out there cares to compile and post one up, I'm sure your fellow Mac users would love you for it. I'm running ubuntu, as I mentioned earlier, and so far the only problem I had was an ID 10 T error on my part. I forgot to delete the test chain and a line in my .conf file that made sure I connected to it. Since it was a deliberate fork and the test node was no longer up, I spent about an hour trying to get a connection before I realized what I'd done
But once that was fixed, I caught 5 connections in seconds and the wallet is syncing up. Caveat to anyone doing off chain tests: Back up your blockchain or you'll be syncing for a LONG time. Not as bad as Bitcoin, but not trivial either.
