I was away last week celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary (yep, I’m ancient), so I’m even later than usual this month. Sorry about that!
May (and part of June) 2022 Progress:
Critical Wallet Bug
Shortly after MWEB went live, a few users reported not receiving coins sent to their MWEB address. After some investigation, it was found that old pre-HD wallets that were upgraded using the upgradewallet
command were generating stealth addresses incorrectly. https://twitter.com/DavidBurkett38/status/1528575311335591937
Fortunately, all funds were safu, but a fix was needed in order for those users to recover their coins.
v0.21.2.1 Release
A new version of Litecoin Core (v0.21.2.1) was released with the fix. You can download it here.
If you’re one of the few unlucky individuals whose wallets are not receiving correctly, upgrade to the new version and then run rescanblockchain 2265984
from the Litecoin console to recover your coins.
Other than this wallet bug, MWEB seems to be working really well. If you have any issues though, please report them on github, or in the MWEB telegram channel.
Now that activation is behind us, it’s time to move to the next big task. Starting this week, we’ll begin working on the design for mobile wallets and other light clients. MWEB presents many technical challenges for light clients, so it may take some time before we settle on a design, but I’ll continue to keep you updated on the progress each month.