Bitmark 0.9.3 Released

This version of Bitmark Core aligns with Bitcoin 0.9.3, including post release updates.

It also includes Bitmark specific changes most notably the private key format has changed, a converter can be found at http://bitmark.co/brain to swap between old and new keys.

Existing wallets, and backups will continue to work as expected, only exported keys cold storage keys need to be converted before importing them to v0.9.3.

Release and downloads for Windows, Linux, and Mac: https://github.com/project-bitmark/bitmark/releases/tag/v0.9.3

Changes:

• Private key version change to 213 to align with common third party tools.
• Seed Nodes and Checkpoints updated.
• Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak.
• Refactor Alert to use static methods.
• Avoid a segfault on getblock if it can’t read a block from disk
• Add paranoid return value checks in base58
• Don’t poll showmyip.com, it doesn’t exist anymore
• Add a way to limit deserialized string lengths and use it
• Increase IsStandard() scriptSig length
• Avoid querying DNS seeds, if we have open connections
• Remove a useless millisleep in socket handler
• Stricter memory limits on CNode
• Better orphan transaction handling
• Add -maxorphantx= and -maxorphanblocks= options for control over the maximum orphan transactions and blocks
• Check redeemScript size does not exceed 520 byte limit
• Ignore (and warn about) too-long redeemScripts while loading wallet
• fix ‘opens in testnet mode when presented with a BIP-72 link with no fallback’
• AvailableCoins: acquire cs_main mutex
• Fix unicode character display on MacOSX
• key.cpp: fail with a friendlier message on missing ssl EC support
• Remove bignum dependency for scripts
• Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.1i (see https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140806.txt - just to be sure, no critical issues for Bitmark Core)
• Upgrade miniupnpc to 1.9.20140701
• Fix boost detection in build system on some platforms

Pfennig 0.9.3

Pfennig has also been updated to align with both Bitcoin v0.9.3 and Bitmark v0.9.3.  Source can be found at https://github.com/project-bitmark/pfennig


More

Bitcore, Insight-api, and Insight have all been updated recently.
A pull request with BTM support has been submitted to brainwallet.org.
http://bitmark.co/brain/ has been updated to produce both v0.9.3 and previous version private keys.

Bitmark BTM now on https://brainwallet.github.io/

What you mean you are late, late in what sense?

Late as in I just recently discovered this amazing coin. This topic has been quite a read so far. One of the top altcoin developers hands down.

Its not too late We are still before the adoption phase (but probably not so long before). I suggest you join our Slack group and there always will be someone to answer your questions. Or just watch for view days how our conversations look like.

Strange, please close and reopen once or twice, it should fix it automatically.

The problem is likely that one of the seed nodes has gone down.  The code picks one at random to try on the first time you ever connect, if you are unfortunate enough to get one which has went offline, then you get this issue.  Simply restarting should fix it.  In the meantime, thank you for making us aware, I'll check all the main seed nodes to ensure they're running.

Ill sell you my time for them ?

It's probably synced but due to slow blocks the client shows that it's not synced.

It should sync when the next block is found. It's not really out of sync now, it just shows that it is.