Firstly no it's not really a problem LOSING 80% of the network hash, it's a good test of how resilient the code is. Without that happening I won't be able to point to it in the future as evidence. It's an issue all new chains will face gaining support from miners. They come and go when it's "immediately profitable" or "immediately not profitable".

I also don't think it's wise to publicly out yourself as a troll but nevertheless I can't stop you.

Artforz has "suggested" code be put into i0coin which was designed to ensure his FPGA miners got more of the blocks than others. Someone incompetent then added the code. So this is what I mean by fleece, he has willfully decided to fleece BTC from the ignorant people who don't understand it. Perhaps people think that he's a champion for using his intelligence in such a manner but to me it comes across as deceitful.

The other BTC trolls here taking joy in the potential misery of others is also quite a sad indictment on the human race.

Um...you're on bitcointalk.org.  Bitcoin is Run DMC and you're 50 cent.

Edit:  I dislike rap.

No, it was a subjective statement obviously referring to a larger issue.  There's a reason nerds are nerds.  They're good with gadgets, but they suck at understanding what people actually want.

You know what I meant when I said "good stuff."  I was referring to the ridiculously limited selection of things you can buy with SC.  I'm on this forum every day, and I haven't seen one thing that I can buy with SC.

I'm not excited yet because I don't believe you are good at understanding what people want.

Edit:  Your debating talents include "oh yeah, that's coming...hasn't happened yet, but it will.  You just watch. Watchin' yet?"

Stop projecting cause you never got any girls when you were 13.

I own more SC than BTC, fyi.  

Edit:  I'm terminating my discussion on this thread.  The guy who suggested instantaneous transmission of substances to the brain has a better economic model.  He's a guy who knows what people want.

Yep all good points. It depends of course on a variety of factors, but regardless of what the "value" is, switching to SolidCoin is really painless for most sites. Obviously determining "value" is an importing thing for any business and will definitely restrict uptake.

So we need to improve the developer tools and make it easy for businesses used to dealing in fiat to have that option. Unlike bitcoin we aren't going to force users to rely on middlemen who go to the exchanges for you and take fees and then give you fiat after a complicated and unneeded signing up procedure. We are working closely with some exchanges to offer this straight to the business and give them the code to use it.

Even with Bitcoin's "value" in 50% swings in some days businesses can't rely on it. So for a while at least we have to peg value to fiat and keep their holdings in fiat until the day the currency is stable.

We can't really have a discussion unless you give actual numbers. The longest time it can take is infinite, with 0 miners. Don't know if that really answers your question or not.

We're about to see a drop back down to 8000 diff or so in 6 hours, down from 18000. So we will likely see more miners coming back and the cycle continues. Notice however that we now have a new minimum amount of miners (compared to starting with 0 ) This is part of the algorithm. Each cycle the base should continue to grow.

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I'm not sure why CoinHunter keeps on using this 400% number. It makes absolute no sense. You can't lower a number by 400%. If you lower by 100%, you get 0. Lowering by 400% gives you -54,738?!? I think what he's trying to say is that it can lower at most 75%. Also the 12 hours is an estimate. The actual time depends on how long it takes to find 240 blocks. At the ideal rate of a block every 3 minutes, you will find 240 blocks in 12 hours. But if you lose 90% of your miners, it could take 5 days. And when the difficulty adjusts after 5 days, it will only reduce by 75% max and not 90%.

So, CoinHunter, please fix the text on your website.

So that's wrong too? There's no 12 hour calculation in the difficulty adjustment period at all? It's simply every 240 blocks exactly, no matter how fast or slow those blocks were found?