I *think* this might be some people running without enablefullretargetperiod=1, but I'm far from certain on that.

Er!!! the downward side clamp is essential for security.

E.g. say the difficulty is a zillion and I want to mine a fantasy fork in order to trick clients that I've isolated into accepting txn that will never be confirmed on the main network.  I wait until near the end of a cycle at current difficulty pushing the timetamps into the future, ... when the adjustment happens on my fork if there is no limit the new difficulty it ends up pretty low and I can then maintain that fork in realtime for as long as I like.

With the limit it would require me mining tens of thousands of blocks at high difficulty to produce a valid chain at a difficulty I could maintain.

block count would easily shed some light on this:
60k+ = you're on the old GG chain without enablefullretargetperiod
~350 = you're on the old GG chain with enablefullretargetperiod
~240 = you're on the new GG chain without enablefullretargetperiod
~1650 = you're on the new GG chain with enablefullretargetperiod

last one is the "real" chain.

On the 'real' chain as count states above, got 12 hashes (last at 3:16pmEST, 2 min ago) over the last 8hrs, and 0 balance, 0 account transactions. I'm assuming they're all orphaned and somethings still up.

I'm not sure how to get info like block# and connections other than looking at ggID.  So here's a screenshot.

I swear, I always overlook something so obvious.  Sorry for the n00b questions.

Thank you.

Block 1676
Connections 13
Diff 132
hashespersec 0

The seven millions are legitimate, and are the bounties and laundry fund that I think I mentioned in the first post.

The reasoning behind the sum is the following - geist has neither production drop-off nor upper limit on amount of gg in the chain (well, there sorta is, over a hundred billions, lol) which (combined with very fast blocks) means no expectation of deflation and thus a lower (compared to other alt-coins) price per unit (when exchanges open, that is)

Thus, I need much more than other coins in terms of bounties.

I also want to organize a "cryptocurrency laundry" that does not suffer from the usual crap of having too little coinage to ensure that you don't get fed your own coins.

After some guesstimations, I've reasoned that I need no less than four millions as buffer for laundry (never to be spent, but instead serve as "clean coin" supply for the laundry while "dirty" coins are accumulated in separate  wallet to eventually become the new buffer, while commission is diverted to yet another wallet) and about a pair of millions for bounties and stuff, so I can more easily persuade competent people to lend their helping hands to the effort. I added a bunch o'geists on top of that "just in case" so I can also open a "Geist Faucet" and keep it running for at least half a year (I am confident in my peer's ability to milk it dry)

Then, I proceeded to contemplate how should I organize pre-mining those, since forcing other people to download a crapton of blocks just because I want to start the cleanest e-money laundry of all times would be kinda mean.

I've figured a way of doing so in just one block without ruining the coin's operation via multicoin's inflation trigger thing, thus achieving pre-mining without encumbering the chain with a swarm of Laundry&Bounty Fund blocks
None of that was secret since post one, and BTW those coins are quite "canonical"


TIMETRAVELLER EVICTED.
HUGE SUCCESS.

I am so putting this instead of usual error text in the next build.

Okay lolcust,

Do you see anything wrong here?



It's probably right there and I don't even see it.  Still can't get any work done.

Thanks again for your help.