Yes, the network is very slow at the moment, the chief developer is looking into it!

Hi all. I have 2 small questions:
1. Apparently IBM finally came to terms regarding the WCG stats (https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,40876_offset,130). Are there any plans yet to resume the Byte distribution for WCG?

2. I had a bet placed on the football world championship semi-final. Now for more than 2 days I cannot redeem the winning contract. As soon as I hit "send" it doesn't really do anything but wait and sometimes synchronize and eventually gives "[internal] response timeout".
Is this also related to the extremely slow network at the moment or is there an additional problem with the betting bot?

If the giveaway is end,Byteball would face criticism from steemians and it could lead very bad for byteball..I think 1% steemians registered with byteball

I guess that the main reason is that the distribution is not completed yet. In this phase whales are probably slowly accumulating, but they wouldn't pump the price with so many indistributed coins in dev's hands. Generally speaking, big speculations over coins not entirely distributed could turn out being more dangerous than with fully distributed coins. Just my humble guess.

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Hi guys! Network is working fine for ya?

Wasn't the scalability of DAG supposed to be much, much better than blockchain? I thought that was the selling point of Byteball and other cryptocurrencies based on DAG. But if validation becomes slower as the graph becomes more complex, then we really don't have a competitive advantage in using DAG,.

That’s a valid concern but please mind that we have mostly unoptimised code here. IMO the underlying SQL server is the bottleneck here, there’s no flaw in the DAG scalability. This was already discussed several times but the optimization of the database functions was postponed because other improvements seemed to be more urgent.

Since most people are encouraged to run the wallet in light mode anyway, would it make sense for the full nodes to use a full capability DBMS? Assuming the performance benefits would be that significant and thinking about long term future.