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... The hashrate has been fluctuating a LOT. Thus block rates fluctuate while waiting on retarget. This isn't an issue of reliability of any kind and as a coinholder/supporter one would think there would be suggestions made to improve something not that the project is doomed and has some horrendous flaw that doesn't exist...
Have you paid attentiong AT ALL to the hashrate?
EDIT: If the ENTIRE community wants another softfork to even slower times that's fine we will comply however when hashrate plateaus don't blame us if the times are MUCH SLOWER than normal.
@EVERYONE THE POOL WILL BE GOING DOWN SOON TEMPORARILY AS WE ARE UPGRADING SERVER EQUIPMENT TO OUR NEW ONES. Services should be back online within 2 hours after outage.
doubt its needed really but 32 blocks in 11 minutes is pretty excessive, how many blocks should we expect in 11 minutes?
how about looking at the difficulty retarget instead if that's the issue?
if the hashrate plateaus as you say wouldn't blocks still be created by pos?
thanks for the warning re the pool
There should be more like around 20 blocks in that time frame and we could softfork again if need be.
To be honest we are looking into a difficulty retarget algorithm. Something like Digishield or KGW, we're still looking around and testing things.
The retarget needs to be smoother.
Well, the PoW and PoS are independent threads in a sense though each have an equal chance to hit the next block on the chain.
In other words if PoW fluctuates for example from 4mhash/s to 11mhash/s it would cause a small surge in blocks found in the same amount of time it would normally should have been less. So it looks like the chain rushes. If you look at overall blockrate you'll notice at times minutes where blocks were not found at all when the hashrate dips suddenly. This constant down up down up down up makes the chain rate jerk.
Same with PoS, if users are staking a consistent amount then the rate will be on target, if users stop staking many coins then later on stake a lot more than there was previously it would jerk the chain a little.
hence why a retarget algorithm would make sense to use to smooth this out.
I'm trying to reset my password to the pool now to cash out. Looks like the reset email never came. Perhaps due to the pool going down.
More than likely, please try again. Let us know if you run into any other issues.