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      ronthedon last edited by

      Call to action! All must help out!

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        cryptomaker22 last edited by

        “call to action”!

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          svennand Regular Member last edited by

          picked out 21 blocks since last night, so call to action is ongoing from my side ;)

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          • ghostlander
            ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

            Didn’t count how many blocks I’ve found at D2’s PXC pool yesterday and today, but quite a few. 4 blocks including 1 orphan in 4 hours of low difficulty alone, though the network hash rate was high at that time.

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              SixGun last edited by

              Thanks to everyone that paid attention and helped out. I was surprised by the very good conversation that ensued, and must say I learned a great deal from reading through the comments.

              It seems that us jumping in was both good and bad in that I believe we really did help them get over the hump. However, I was really surprised by how fast the diff was right back up to where it was and put them right back in to the same cycle. I think the most important thing to come from this is more attention to the diff change issues caused by the swooping vultures (along with what is being discussed in http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=2667.0.). I know the coinchoose pools helped out during the last attack, but they are also a detriment to keeping the confirmation speeds up which to me is an obstacle to long term consumer adoption.

              Thanks for everyone’s input and help!

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              • ghostlander
                ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

                Phenixcoin has got into another difficulty trap with a long way to go until the next retarget at current 40MH/s or so. Please put some hash power in, they need it.

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                  Nutnut Regular Member last edited by

                  Where’s their stats page?

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                  • ghostlander
                    ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

                    [quote name=“Nutnut” post=“22851” timestamp=“1374620632”]
                    Where’s their stats page?
                    [/quote]

                    AFAIR, there is none.

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                      Nutnut Regular Member last edited by

                      [quote name=“ghostlander” post=“22854” timestamp=“1374622086”]
                      [quote author=Nutnut link=topic=2661.msg22851#msg22851 date=1374620632]
                      Where’s their stats page?
                      [/quote]

                      AFAIR, there is none.
                      [/quote]

                      So how do we know when the retarget is?

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                        justabitoftime last edited by

                        http://pxc.theblocksfactory.com/

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                        • ghostlander
                          ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

                          [quote name=“Nutnut” post=“22855” timestamp=“1374622267”]
                          [quote author=ghostlander link=topic=2661.msg22854#msg22854 date=1374622086]
                          [quote author=Nutnut link=topic=2661.msg22851#msg22851 date=1374620632]
                          Where’s their stats page?
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                          AFAIR, there is none.
                          [/quote]

                          So how do we know when the retarget is?
                          [/quote]

                          By using their block explorer. They retarget every 600 blocks.

                          [quote author=Justabitoftime link=topic=2661.msg22857#msg22857 date=1374623246]
                          http://pxc.theblocksfactory.com/
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                          This one displays incorrect next difficulty and not accurate at all.

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                            Nutnut Regular Member last edited by

                            All for helping the partner coins but they need to help themselves too. Fix the retarget time/percentage as we did and put up a stats page. Then we won’t be here again in another week!

                            All that’s happening at the moment is that I keep mining the least profitable coin (or rather most difficult) to bail the alts out.

                            Usually I stick with ftc and even that can be hard to swallow at times as the diff drops for 8 hours it works well but then all and sundry mine it, the diff rockets and I end up mining it at high diff/low reward again. I almost feel the 40% is still too big a swing and still gives way to diff bounce. With the partner coins getting stuck too I’d mine even less rewarding coins. Donations to the leccy bill accepted. ;)

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                              svennand Regular Member last edited by

                              [quote name=“Nutnut” post=“22881” timestamp=“1374650584”]
                              All for helping the partner coins but they need to help themselves too. Fix the retarget time/percentage as we did and put up a stats page. Then we won’t be here again in another week!

                              All that’s happening at the moment is that I keep mining the least profitable coin (or rather most difficult) to bail the alts out.

                              Usually I stick with ftc and even that can be hard to swallow at times as the diff drops for 8 hours it works well but then all and sundry mine it, the diff rockets and I end up mining it at high diff/low reward again. I almost feel the 40% is still too big a swing and still gives way to diff bounce. With the partner coins getting stuck too I’d mine even less rewarding coins. Donations to the leccy bill accepted. ;)
                              [/quote]

                              +1

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                                justabitoftime last edited by

                                We’ll get everyone on the same page soon. As for our difficulty re-adjust… I would like to see:

                                • No more than a ~20% adjust
                                • Less than 504 blocks
                                • More dynamic adjust (similar to PPC)
                                • If difficulty gets hung up too high, some measure to have it self correct
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                                • ghostlander
                                  ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

                                  PPC retargets continuously, I mean every block. Block target is the same to Bitcoin, although there is a 1 week long averaging window with a daily difficulty limiter set at 2.0. Need we implement continuous retargetting? That’s a good question.

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                                    Nutnut Regular Member last edited by

                                    So, back on topic, if anyone wants to lend a few hashes to help our partner coins out, you can do so here on my pools - [url=http://www.nut2pools.com]Nut2Pools.com[/url] or on d2’s pools here - [url=http://d2.cc]d2.cc[/url]. There are obviously other pools too but i’ll let you find them. ;)

                                    I’m mining them with a rig now…

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                                      jeremiel Regular Member last edited by

                                      Do we have an accurate retarget display url yet for pxc?

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                                        Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                                        They just released a new client which doubles the block time without halving the block reward, thereby doubling the rate of inflation.

                                        https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266377.0

                                        I expect value will reach half what it once was in accordance with this change. Sucks to be a PXC holder right about now…

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                                          Tuck Fheman last edited by

                                          [quote name=“Kevlar” post=“24046” timestamp=“1375394706”]
                                          They just released a new client which doubles the block time without halving the block reward, thereby doubling the rate of inflation.

                                          https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266377.0

                                          I expect value will reach half what it once was in accordance with this change. Sucks to be a PXC holder right about now…
                                          [/quote]

                                          This is an interesting development with odd timing, to say the least.

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                                            Kevlar Spammer last edited by

                                            [quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“24050” timestamp=“1375397359”]
                                            [quote author=Kevlar link=topic=2661.msg24046#msg24046 date=1375394706]
                                            They just released a new client which doubles the block time without halving the block reward, thereby doubling the rate of inflation.

                                            https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266377.0

                                            I expect value will reach half what it once was in accordance with this change. Sucks to be a PXC holder right about now…
                                            [/quote]

                                            This is an interesting development with odd timing, to say the least.
                                            [/quote]

                                            Indeed, and the price reflects it. It’s presently headed towards it’s monthly low price, which is hasn’t seen since the start of July.

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