Hydrogen Helix
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/releases/tag/v0.9.0

Overview
Too much to describe. Represents a major release in Monero's history, over a year-and-a-half in the making.
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I'll focus on a side point, since I have no clue why the windows version would silently die:


That is odd. Can you ping checkpoints.moneropulse.co, checkpoints.moneropulse.se ?
If you have dig, what is the output of:
dig -t TXT checkpoints.moneropulse.co
dig -t TXT checkpoints.moneropulse.se

If you have another DNS tool to run on the same machine bitmonerod runs on, you can use it instead to query the TXT record for these two hosts.

thanks for the release guys!! Hydrogen Helix  

and thanks for the guys running those 100/1000 mbit seednodes, good traffic.

i hope there wont be any critical stuff,lets still try to be careful.

2 min will be activated after the fork, right?


very big present!!!booom!

I am mining at 73 H/s with 4 threads on i7 2600k.

XMR bagholders can sell now for profit and can invedt in vanillacoin with its mega release.

yes thats too slow if you ask me, but maybe its ionly the display..

btw i think 3 threads should be enough on i7 2600k.

with old release i had like 180 h/s on 2700k 4ghz if i remember correctly.

CONGRATS ON THE RELEASE!!! MONERO FOR EVERYONE! 32 bit, 64 bit, 512 MB ram machines, 5400 rpm machines, !!!!![/list]

4 threads will get max performance (around 200) but 3 will reduce impact if you are using the computer for something else. Anyway, 73 is too low, yes. Something is wrong there.