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      Radacoin last edited by

      Down to 47.0384.

      I thought it’s going up after, no? Network hashrate something like 2,000 -4,000 MH/s.

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        ASDASDASD last edited by

        Difficulty said it was going to 94 and instead went the other direction.

        What the hell?

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          Smoothie Regular Member last edited by

          If you look at the time stamps of the blocks it shows that it took longer than 24 hours to finish the 504 blocks.

          Hmm

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            stulowe last edited by

            perhaps a screwy side effect of the 51%. Find out in 6 hours time.

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            • zerodrama
              zerodrama Regular Member last edited by

              Also we have achieved 2.5 minute target. We are staying at this difficulty for a while.

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                sheepson Regular Member last edited by

                It now says blocktime is 58seconds.

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                  RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

                  oh well…shit may be broken but ill just leave my miners on the pool and let the pool operators and devs get this figured out. If the diff went down too much it will just shoot back up in a couple hours.

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                    ASDASDASD last edited by

                    Forked with custom difficulty adjustment?

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                      RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

                      [quote name=“ASDASDASD” post=“12488” timestamp=“1370880309”]
                      Forked with custom difficulty adjustment?
                      [/quote]

                      who knows…it will correct itself soon anyway. Just mine away and everything will be fine.

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                      • ghostlander
                        ghostlander Regular Member last edited by

                        We have had over 6GH/s network hash rate on the peak of attack. Our top 7 pools contributed to over 3GH/s. The attack failed.

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                          Magic8Ball Regular Member last edited by

                          [quote name=“erk” post=“12571” timestamp=“1370899381”]
                          The 41.4% diff adjustment is meaningless when the hash rate goes up by 300%
                          [/quote]

                          Still better than 4x.

                          We are are almost back to 66. A few oscillations are inevitable.

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                            UKMark last edited by

                            [quote name=“Bushstar” post=“12504” timestamp=“1370891673”]
                            This was really nifty how they did this.

                            It took less than than the target time to get to the next difficulty adjust so the difficulty should have gone up. Because the attacker overwrote the starting block with one from a day before it looked to the network like it took an extra day. This made the difficulty go down.

                            This is the first time that I have ever seen this sort of attack. We currently have an unexpected easy batch of coins to mine. Perhaps this is the attackers way of compensating miners for the orphaned blocks :)
                            [/quote]

                            http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=853.msg12504#msg12504

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                              RIPPEDDRAGON Regular Member last edited by

                              And as predicted the transition back to 66 diff went fine! 6 more hours until the next jump. Good thing we adjust faster now so corrections come quicker.

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                                UKMark last edited by

                                [quote name=“erk” post=“12585” timestamp=“1370900741”]
                                [code]Stats
                                Current Block 34780
                                Current Difficulty 66.52666307
                                Expected Time per Block 0 day(s), 0 hour(s), 0 min, 35 sec
                                Time to Retarget 0 day(s), 4 hour(s), 55 min, 50 sec
                                Current Network Hashrate 6,827,475 KHash/s (60 block avg.)
                                Next Difficulty 94.087709199
                                Next Difficulty Retarget Block 35280
                                Total Coins Mined 6956000[/code]

                                The 41.4% difficulty adjustment has allowed the block time to get down to 35sec. It’s clearly not keeping up.
                                [/quote]

                                [quote]

                                Please be aware these are only statistical averages and they may be inaccurate, [b]especially just after a difficulty retarget.[/b]
                                [/quote]

                                1 minute @ the minute.

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                                • zerodrama
                                  zerodrama Regular Member last edited by

                                  [quote name=“erk” post=“12571” timestamp=“1370899381”]
                                  The 41.4% diff adjustment is meaningless when the hash rate goes up by 300%
                                  [/quote]

                                  No it isn’t.

                                  It just catches up in steps. Who cares if it jumps 300% in 1 shot or several. If the hashrate goes skyhigh it will have more retargets in one day. Result is it will reach 300% soon enough.

                                  The problem is entirely a perception not a fact. 300% in 1 jump or 41% 100% 141% 200% 282% = If we have 5 jumps in one day it’s the same thing as if we have 1 jump in 1 day. Except that they can never catch us in a difficulty trap.

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                                    Magic8Ball Regular Member last edited by

                                    [quote name=“UKMark” post=“12590” timestamp=“1370901269”]
                                    [quote author=erk link=topic=1554.msg12585#msg12585 date=1370900741]
                                    [code]Stats
                                    Current Block 34780
                                    Current Difficulty 66.52666307
                                    Expected Time per Block 0 day(s), 0 hour(s), 0 min, 35 sec
                                    Time to Retarget 0 day(s), 4 hour(s), 55 min, 50 sec
                                    Current Network Hashrate 6,827,475 KHash/s (60 block avg.)
                                    Next Difficulty 94.087709199
                                    Next Difficulty Retarget Block 35280
                                    Total Coins Mined 6956000[/code]

                                    The 41.4% difficulty adjustment has allowed the block time to get down to 35sec. It’s clearly not keeping up.
                                    [/quote]

                                    [quote]

                                    Please be aware these are only statistical averages and they may be inaccurate, [b]especially just after a difficulty retarget.[/b]
                                    [/quote]

                                    1 minute @ the minute.
                                    [/quote]

                                    You can’t take stats immediately after a difficulty readjust. Wait for sometime and see the true picture.

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                                      Radacoin last edited by

                                      [quote name=“zerodrama” post=“12592” timestamp=“1370901465”]
                                      Except that they can never catch us in a difficulty trap.
                                      [/quote]

                                      I think they still can. In case FTC drops by, say, 30% on btc-e and coinchoose only shows 75% profitability a lot of miners will jump boat. Hashrate will go down from 6000 to maybe 600.

                                      [b]Solely[/b] with technical means we have no chance to protect our coin. It can only be with trust, good PR, marketing, value added, …

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                                        Magic8Ball Regular Member last edited by

                                        [quote name=“erk” post=“13204” timestamp=“1370986330”]
                                        Difficulty is too high again now, hash rate will decline fast.

                                        I think the 504 bock re-target is too high, should be half that ie 12hr.
                                        [/quote]

                                        Don’t think its too bad. We still have around 2 Ghash/s and profitablity of 90%+.

                                        Even if it halves we still get to the retarget in 2 days and I think we will stabilize around 90 with a few small oscillations.

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                                          A Former User last edited by

                                          My difficulty seems to jump every share I get. Is that normal?

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