Hi all,

By now most of you have heard that on November 13, there will be a network upgrade on the Bitcoin Cash chain to replace the EDA with a more responsive difficulty algorithm which should eliminate the "ice ages" and "turbo blocks" experienced to date. Block times should return to 10 min average, although unpredictable hashpower fluctuations in the days after due to the SegWit2x fork could mean some increased variance.

You can find the current latest version via the website at

https://download.bitcoinabc.org/0.16.0/

Ubuntu users please refer to this post for instructions on how to update.

The specifications for this upgrade are here.

If you are a developer who needs assistance with making your software compatible, please get in touch with us. You can do so via this subreddit, or via chat on the BTCfork slack (self invite here).

If you have any other questions about the coming upgrade, feel free to ask!