New Checkpoint Release

This is a new checkpoint release for everyone trying to resync the chain fast.
Procedure is as always: Quit the Client and make a backup of your wallet.dat and (if applicable) your IoP.conf.

Clean everything else from your data directory (~/.IoP on Linux, ~/Library/Application Support/IoP on Mac, %APPDATA%\IoP on Windows). Install and run the new version. Let it sit for 5-10 minutes.

Major Update

This release brings the following improvements. Please update immediately!

• Finally, the block reward will be increased on block 50400 to 50 IoP/block, with standard bitcoin-like halving. The final supply will then be 20.6 million tokens, a little less than initially planned.

• All slowdown introduced by the Contribution Contracts has been alleviated. Everything should be lightning fast from now on. All Miners can run profitable again.

For Users:
To install the Ubuntu packages, download the relevant .deb package and run dpkg -i iop-blockchain_5.0.0-ubuntu1404_amd64.deb or dpkg -i iop-blockchain_5.0.0-ubuntu1604_amd64.deb. On windows, just run the installer. If you are on MacOS, download the .dmg and drag the included file into your Applications folder.

For Miners:
If you want to run multiple miner daemons on Windows or MacOS, download the .tar.gz files for you architecture and extract to a location of your choice.

New Mainnet Checkpoint

Again, a new checkpoint to facilitate faster syncing.

New Checkpoint for mainnet

This release now features the official new logo.
Also, we introduced another recent checkpoint to help with syncing.

If it causes you more pain than happiness, let go!

With this release, the Internet of People is no longer affiliated with the Fermat Project.

Over the last weeks, there has been increasing dispute between the community of the Internet of People and the Leader of the Fermat Project. The community explicitly disagrees with the proposed restructuring of the Chapters and the license model, so we decided it is best to go our separate ways.

If you are on Ubuntu, nothing changes: You can keep updating from the usual repository.
Everyone else, please refer to this GitHub repository for official releases from now on.

Stay tuned for some major updates in the near future.