Re: Opinions on the state of play.
Restricting the source code and restricting hasrate by brute force is the wrong way to go and unlikely to win friends. Excessive tinkering at this point would be unwise and it seems good the way it is right now imho. Far better to simply get the message across to the miners with over say 1 Mh/s at their disposal that they are actually the problem. These miners need to realize that they could be throwing far far less hashing at it and get much higher rewards. Yeah - it's counter-intuitive and people need to wise up. Perhaps this particular feature requires greater emphasis in publications. From a few back-of-a-cigarette-packet calculations I reckon miners should be aiming for a maximum 200 Kh/s each, then we can see how the totals work out in more detail. The only problem I see with this approach is that self-restraint in not general human nature while greed is generally the norm. XMG is different - greed should not be rewarded.
Very suggestive comments, Spexx; you're right we should emphasize lower hash getting higher rewards. There is a feature I didn't disclose yet, the diff where maximum XMG occurs increases over time, that will allow more and more people mining XMG and share the maximum rewards later on.
Yea but there is big problem right there. Their greed is my problem, and problem of all "avarage miners" and that is not acceptable for miner like me who use, as you said, around 200kH/s.
What if hashrate never drops? If more people finds this coin interesting, as i also hope, - no big reward.
What if they actually realize that with lower hashrate they can have more, but if one alone do that it will get in worse position. It's hard to belive that they all will realise (in more or less same time) that they should use much less hashrate.
At least some big red letters should be on homepage of pools to "ask" miners to not use more then xx kH/s.
