Monero community reaches consensus for July hard fork

Monero community reaches consensus for July hard fork

Monero hard forks are meant to improve the base protocol and will not result in the splitting and creation of a new coin. As told by Monero (XMR) developers over the weekend, on July 16, the Monero network passed a community consensus to initiate a mainnet hard fork at block height 2,668,888. The popular privacy coin's hard fork will include increasing the chain's ring size from 11 to 16, adding view tags to outputs to reduce wallet scanning time, introducing bulletproofs and implementing fee changes.Raising the number of ring signatures is meant to ensure that transactions have a larger....


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