Version v6.1.0 is now available.

Release: https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/releases/tag/v6.1.0

Release notes: https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/blob/v6.1.0/docs/release-notes/release-notes-6.x.md

Note:

The version v6.0.0 will not break anything but will no longer signal. Kindly update to version v6.1.0.

This is a time when Alexa 100k reserved names will be “released into the wild”. Certain names will still remain reserved (believe it is the first 1000 on the Alexa100k) but the majority will move to an “open” state and allow anyone to trigger / start an auction mode.

This is all going to “open” at once. All in early 2024. I was personally thinking about not letting it all release at once and spreading it over a year (like the first year of Main net) but many felt that would just let the whales get them all - by releasing all at the same time - “normal people” can focus on that 1 TLD they are waiting for and not have to fight whales each week.

As Paul Webb and I discussed in our August Handshake.mastermind Twitter spaces, this will be a very interesting event - for the HNS coin as well as the community in general. It should create a spike in demand for the coin in order to bid on these thousands of top quality single word TLDs. It will also re-engage our community who has gotten bored of the lack of interesting names available for auction.

Of course, do you own due diligence on those speculations.

You can check the list of names being released here

https://github.com/handshake-org/hsd/pull/828#issuecomment-1663872419

And Rithvik made a new google sheet here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DG0kBpLbLB2zKlJW2F7ANkk8SDbADpUa3sQuEY62_Bw/edit#gid=0

So one reason I’m even typing this up, is in the Handshake Dev Telegram chat, Rithvik is asking miners to update their code so that this soft fork will be pushed onto production.

If you are mining - or know miners - please ask them to make this update

"BIP-9 signalling by miners takes place from 10th August 2023 to 31th December 2023."

So at least by 2 weeks before the end of the year so that it counts for the last window. But to be safe, let's just say by end of November

The ones that Rithvik has reached out to are:

F2Pool
- 2023-08-12: Contacted on Telegram

ViaBTC
- 2023-08-12: Contacted on Twitter and Website form
- 2023-08-13: Replied, forwarded to internal technical team

AntPool
- 2023-08-12: Contacted on Website form

DxPool
- 2023-08-12: Contacted on Discord

Mining-Dutch Pools
- 2023-08-12: Contacted on Discord
- 2023-08-12: Replied, will get back to us next week

And I will be reaching out to some on that list too.

Rithvik made this btw: https://forkwatch.htools.work/

But if you want “The Happening” to happen - then ask miners as well will be the best move you can make.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Happening in early 2024, believe this will be a good turning point for the HNS community.