I just wanted to post this in case anyone hadn't seen it yet.
With more hashpower on the network dedicated to an actual pool, the longest block time is 50% of what it was previously, and the difficulty max has been much less. So there are two points to be noted here.
First, more miners do help the network. We knew this all along, and it's a fundamental principle of the blockchain- more miners=more stable chain.
Secondly, it proves the effectiveness of multipools against our current DGW3 implementation. The swings in difficulty are too great, and they are causing clever to be able to capitalize on too many low difficulty blocks before shooting the difficulty to the moon. Again, something we all knew.
I bring this up because my team has been testing DIGI over the last couple weeks on a testnet. Initial results are very promising. Retargeting is occurring quickly and efficiently. We are seeing very good retargeting when large hashes come and go. We've also found out some other key dynamics that are working against us in some cases. I will let 24Kilo comment on those. However, at this time I am standing behind my initial assertion that DIGI is going to fix this issue. When we get closer to releasing data, we'll provide the charts and darts for community review.
-Fuse
