Just a general thought and question.
The time to solve a block appears to fluctuate a lot during the short term, I know that the majority of the blocks are close to the 4min time but it looks like the difficulty algorithm over or under compensates for the large fluctuations within the network.
We can easily see 5PB fluctuations during one day and I would guess an equally impressive number during each hour. More established coins like Bitcoin and Litecoin have a much more predictable and stable block generation time. With Burst I am seeing fluctuations in time such as:
BLOCK - mm:ss
54485 - 5:42
54484 - 0:19
54483 - 3:36
54482 0:02
54481 - 3:02
54480 - 7:05
54478 - 10:00
54477 - 0:33
Within an 8 block period of time a customer would have to wait between 19 seconds to 10 minutes for their first confirmation. When I look at the Litecoin network, their block generation time has fluctuated about 70 seconds max for the last month. (
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/litecoin/difficulty) The grey line on the middle chart.
When BURST matures will this variance in block time rewards be an issue? Possibly causing confidence concerns? If a customer/merchant are expecting to see one confirmation within ~4min but it doesn't happen for 15min+ this could be an issue. I've seen 15min+ blocks regularly.
Could the large swings in network capacity and almost cyclical nature of these swings be some very large solo miners taking advantage of this difficulty behavior? Online Large amounts of plots to increase solo chances, offline them for few blocks so the difficulty will drop and then online them again? (No idea on this, just trying to figure out why the network capacity fluctuates so much).
Just some thoughts and questions from a noob.
