MTP is now set to go live at block 47,500 which is in about 1.5 months' time.
Miner bounty program with a total of USD 21,000 will be awarded to the best open source miners for CPU and GPU. If you are interested, please drop by our Slack and join the #minerdevcompetition channel.
Those who are interested in participating in the test and wallet mining on the testnet can use the pre-release version (Windows version coming soon). Reference CPU and GPU miners will be released in a few days.
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