Quote from: sickpig on February 09, 2015, 08:20:38 AM

Quote from: cypherdoc on February 08, 2015, 10:56:57 PM

He made a technical error in the article; a low hashrate of a fork wouldn't extend the time between blocks. It only would make them less secure.

really? I would had thought it would be the case at least until the next diff re-target, no?

well, a hard fork new chain gets started with x hashing rate. blocks are 10 min apart, just like they were with Bitcoin back in 2009. any increases in hashing rate from miner adoption that decreases the frequency below 10 min is automatically adjusted every 2 wks with difficulty. we've never had a problem with block intervals going to days or weeks in Bitcoin so why should it happen with a new chain, given it is a hard fork with minimal protocol changes?