Older chain recommendations

Question

So what's the recommendation for people running older chains? Should be start a new one with newest protocol and somehow update new one with data from the old one? What do you suggest?

My old one has a lot of blocks mined but not much data other than testing. I'd hate to lose the blocks that have been mined but I guess its not that big a deal. I was hoping to use the blocks already mined as a "currency/native asset" of sorts.

We are ready to deploy our mobile application layer but kinda gun-shy to do so if I have to nuke the existing chain and start a new one. 

Thanks in advance. Love all the support here. You guys have created something amazing here. I have huge respect for what you've done. Thanks so much for all the hard work. It's great stuff.

Answer 1

For blockchains prior to protocol 10008, I'm afraid there's no upgrade path to newer protocols without starting a new chain. So the answer is indeed to somehow move your data across. I understand this answer isn't ideal, but there's a reason why MultiChain has only recently been declared ready for production.

Comments

Thanks, I suspected that. Ah the joys on being on the bleeding edge!  :)

Thanks again guys. Great stuff.