PPCoin: Update readme for release 0.2.0

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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-PPCoin 0.1.0 BETA
+PPCoin 0.2.0 BETA
 
 Copyright (c) 2011-2012 PPCoin Developers
 Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying
@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ incoming connections.  PPCoin works without incoming connections,
 but allowing incoming connections helps the PPCoin network.
 
 
+Upgrade
+-------
+All you existing coins/transactions should be intact with the upgrade.
+To upgrade from 0.1.0, first backup wallet
+ppcoind backupwallet <destination_backup_file>
+Then shutdown ppcoind by
+ppcoind stop
+Remove files inside wallet directory other than wallet.dat and ppcoin.conf
+Start up the new ppcoind (0.2.0). It would start re-downloading block chain.
+
+
 See the documentation/wiki at the ppcoin website:
   http://www.ppcoin.org/
 for help and more information.