Decred price soars 45% in one day three weeks before a major hard fork

cointelegraph.com:

Decred (DCR) prices soared by as much as 45% on April 18 before paring some gains as traders bet on a major hard fork that aims to prevent pump-and-dump schemes by miners. 

DCR rallied by nearly 45% to over $86 in one day, its highest level in four months. Moreover, the massive upside move accompanied a similarly huge spike in its trading volumes, confirming that most traders backed the intraday bullish momentum.

Traders flocked to buying Decred ahead of a key upgrade slated for early May that would reduce the DCR mining reward share to 10% from the current 60%.

The update comes in response to a community vote that agreed to limit "malicious miners" — those with a history of artificially pumping-and-dumping DCR — from accessing Decred.

On the other hand, the community agreed to raise the rewards for Decred's proof-of-stake validators — entities that validate blocks submitted by miners — from 30% to 80%, suggesting that consensus wants to switch primarily away from PoW consensus to PoS on-chain governance.

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Simply put, Decred users would be incentivized for locking up their DCR for a certain period, thus reducing their active supply from the market, which could bolster price.

"DCR block reward change is in 20 days," noted Permabull Niño, an independent market analyst, saying that it should be the reason for traders to watch the Decred market closely in the coming sessions. Excerpts:

Decred's price corrected by nearly 20% soon after topping out for the day near $86, a level near DCR's two key resistance