Spare Network: Take 2

Wow, it’s been an insane 24+ hours since we launched! We were admittedly unprepared for the overwhelming response to Spare. The website crashed from overload, the network couldn’t keep up.

What went wrong

As many of you know, we experienced last minute issues in our codebase that delayed the Windows release and ultimately created a very rough start to the network as a whole. As we’ve explained in previous tweets to the community our difficulty value was insufficiently set to keep up with network growth. When the difficulty of a proof is not enough for the size of the network, blocks are created rapidly (10 sec vs. 18 min). Ultimately, we don’t think that this situation will resolve by itself and need to take action to force a resolution.

The Solution

The reality is this: in order to move forward we need to restart the blockchain with different difficulty values. Everyone will receive a fresh start, and we will reissue all rewards won up until now on the new chain.

The blockchain will be restarted on June 20, 3:00 PM UTC

NOTE: Current famers will need to UNINSTALL and remove the current Spare app and REINSTALL the new app that will be pushed to GitHub.

The Windows App

We know that launching without windows wasn’t ideal. We’ve been working non-stop since the initial launch to complete the compiled Windows app. We’re happy to announce it will go live at the time of the relaunch on June 20, 3:00 PM UTC! Mac OS app is coming shortly.
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Lastly, thanks everyone for your patience. We know it was a rough start, thank you for sticking with us.