Community Update

General Announcements

We’ve finished developing the mining pool feature and are in the process of final testing. We’ll put out instructions in the next 24-48 hours for those of you who are interested in helping us test this out!
We’ve identified a bug in the difficulty retargeting algorithm, and are working on addressing it. More linked below, but bottom line is the current algorithm has an exploit which allows the miner to manipulate the timestamp to arbitrarily move around the difficulty (and thus weight) for the given block
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkVM/issues/539
- Discord Thread

Merges:
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1479 - Decrypt transactions with record view key in gettransaction RPC
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1478 - Add a sleep delay if the node hits capacity on the listener (improve sync node performance)
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1477 - Don't accept connections when at max peers (improve sync node performance)
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1476 - Introduce a MapId object containing the DataMap prefix
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1467 - Fix README typo
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1460
In-Progress:
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1482 - Drop the block requests lock before disconnecting
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1480 - adding support for Prometheus metrics
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1462 - Choose sync target peer randomly
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1436 - Networking optimizations pertaining to CircularMap
- https://github.com/AleoHQ/snarkOS/pull/1427 - Mining pool (currently being tested)
Shout-outs:
- @xorinox#0459 and @Harukaはるか#8264 for helping identify the issue above for the difficulty retargeting algorithm