Your release announcement does not make it clear that Bitcoin Classic is incompatible with the current Bitcoin network and its consensus rules. It is a hard fork on mainnet with no safe activation as well as including other unsafe changes. There is also no BIP for the hard fork. There is also no evidence of community wide consensus for such a hard fork. This is dangerous and irresponsible.
It's wrong to announce software without correctly informing people about the contents or risks. Furthermore, there are no release notes in https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/tree/v1.2.0/doc nor changelog. Without those, it is almost impossible for average users to know what is under the hood or what has changed and time consuming for developers to assess.
Bitcoin Classic version 1.2.0 is now available from;
<https://bitcoinclassic.com/gettingstarted.html >
This is a new major version release, including new features, various
bugfixes and performance improvements.
This release marks a change in strategy for Bitcoin Classic, moving from the
very conservative block size proposal based on compromise to one where
Classic truly innovates and provides a long term solution for the market to
choose and leave behind the restrictions of the old.
The most visible change in this version is the decentralised block size
solution where node operators decide on the maximum size.
Bitcoin Classic is focused on providing users a way to get onto the Bitcoin
network using a high quality validating node for a large set of use cases.
Classic presents top notch quality processes in this release, to help anyone
running Bitcoin.
We include in this release various projects with the beta label. People who
want to use the Classic node as an on-ramp to Bitcoin will find them
interesting. These projects will need to be enabled in the config by those
that want to test them.
More background information on this release and Classic can be seen in this
video: https://vimeo.com/192789752
The full release notes are on github at
https://github.com/bitcoinclassic/bitcoinclassic/ releases/tag/v1.2.0
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Tom Zander
Blog: https://zander.github.io
Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel
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