NXT Hard Fork Announced: Monetary System Going Live
A hard fork has been announced for the NXT crypto-currency, which will enable the long anticipated 'Monetary System' feature that allows for the creation of user-issued currencies by 'locking' NXT. NXT users can update now to the NRS v1.4.5 client, which will enable the Monetary System. This is a 'hard fork', which means that the upgrade is compulsory if you want to keep using NXT without ending up on your own separate block chain. Users of NXT must upgrade to the latest release by block 330000, at which point the Monetary System will go live. The new Monetary System feature will allow....
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