BYTECOIN 2.0.0 MAJOR UPDATE (Beta) July 4th 2017

 On July 4, the fourth anniversary of the project, the Bytecoin team  introduces Bytecoin v.2.0.0. This release marks a major update after  extensive core refactoring. The new Bytecoin Reference Client and  Bytecoin RPC Wallet set up a new standard of performance for CryptoNote  currencies, improving RAM consumption, synchronization speed, and  network security. The blockchain storage has been moved to a database powered  by RocksDB resulting in significant RAM consumption reduction. The  newest Bytecoin daemon takes up modest 150-200MB RAM, a sixfold decrease  comparing to the previous versions. It also handles blockchain data  more efficiently allowing the application to start up substantially  faster. The underlying network protocol has been updated providing  faster synchronization. It takes daemon only 2.5 hours to sync with the  network from scratch. Thus, starting from v.2.0.0 users can start up a  Bytecoin node 4 times faster.  The core has become much more reliable. The verification of  blocks and transactions has been optimized allowing, among other things,  to handle alternative chains intelligently. Combined with various other  improvements this increases network robustness and improves overall  network security.  The Reference Client release is already available on the Downloads page. The GUI version of Bytecoin Wallet will be updated later in July. The updated source code is available on GitHub. Please note that this major update is currently in beta.  Bytecoin remains fully backwards compatible. Should you have any  comments on the new release, please contact The support team  immediately: [email protected]. 

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