OK what's the deal with that? Last time Tagmining was on the same fork as the block explorer and stayed safe. This time Botpool was on the same fork as the block explorer, but this time the explorer gets reset, and Botpool lost out both times. 

Is there a preference for what happens based on what any or all of the exchanges are on or something?

If this is in fact a difficulty issue, maybe the devs need to rethink the way the difficulty adjusts.  Instead of having a retarget every block, maybe set it to 10-20 blocks or even higher.  IDK.  It just seems like there are a lot of issues lately with the increased hashrate.  I just want to go to sleep and wake up knowing things aren't going to explode when I'm asleep.  Damn sleep messing everything up lol.


I think someone reset the block explorer, and it just synced with the majority of the pools that we on the higher block height.  If there was a preference to what pools or exchanges it follows, that would be a huge loophole that everyone would be bidding on to be "the one".  I would sell my wife for it just so I didn't have to worry that when go to sleep the pool is going to follow the wrong fork.  That's nerve-wracking.

There's purported evidence that in the past, he intentionally forked the coin for profit, and then helped fix it later on. That's what I've heard at least.

Very interesting. I was lurking this thread when all that happened. I seemed to me that BCX was using a fork of Tag to make a point to Cryptsy at the time or something, I guess there is more to it.

1, Your wallet has to be open and online to earn POS coins as far as I'm aware. Is it?
2. You have $20,000 worth of TAG and you are bitching about $25??

I don't know what's going on anymore!  hehe.  Nothing new there.  Anyway...

It seems to me the difficulty adjustment strategy is the primary culprit in the orphans and forks... perhaps change the retarget to every 10 or 15 blocks based on the average of the last 40 or something?  That would provide a smoother adjustment.  Quick enough to respond to a rapid increase in hashrate but not too slow to leave the coin stranded at a high difficulty.  I am guessing the issues arise when a big pool jumps in and quickly solves a series of blocks and latency between that pool and the others results in different difficulty targets and eventually the two can diverge completely.

Love them or hate them, the pools designed to 'mine the most profitable coin' serve a good test purpose.  They deliver a shock to a coin that simulates a kind of actual attack.  If a coin can survive a giant multi coin pool coming and going, it should survive an actual attack.

I have not followed all of the alts closely, but has Megacoin ever had issues with forks and mass orphans?  It might not be a good comparison though as it doesn't have a POS component but it does retarget every block.  Any other coins that have been popular enough to be hit repeatedly by multi coin pools without issue?

Discouraged, yes, but at least one still pops in and out.  And if the retarget were longer, maybe the situation would get worse since other multipools would be less discouraged.

Perhaps narrowing the max difficulty change and averaging it over more blocks but still change each block.

I let HashCows know last night that there was a fork, and they got back to me letting me know they suspended TAG mining.  I haven't notified them yet that it's resolved 

That's a reason the difficulty is under 150 right now lol.

I still think there needs to be some investigation into the orphans.  I'm sitting at about 10% orphans on the pool for the week.  All of this mess with possible forks/actual forks and the occurrence of all the orphans this week seem too coincidental.  Whether it's a direct relation to the difficulty swings or the increased hashrate, or whatever... it needs to be looked at.

Does anyone have any empirical evidence of other coins having high orphan rates for comparison?

-Fuse

You lose the coins.  Generally a good idea not to exchange coins during a fork.  You never know what's going to happen.  Now if you were to exchange coins to another coin, you're basically walking away with free coin.  Which is what BCX claimed he was going to do to cryptsy... like revenge for something bigvern did.  He had it out for him for some reason.

-Fuse