Quote from: coric on February 09, 2015, 07:46:13 PM

Quote from: justusranvier on February 09, 2015, 04:54:47 PM

Quote from: cypherdoc on February 09, 2015, 04:48:32 PM

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?

At the point of the fork, the difficulty has already been set based on the entire network's hash rate.

Miners have to choose one fork to mine.

If half of them go one way, and the other half goes to the other fork, then both forks are mining at with difficulty at double the value it should be, so both forks will experience 20 minute block times until the next difficulty adjustment.

If the split is 70/25, then the smaller chain will experience 40 minute block times and the larger chain will get 13 minute block times.

And the 20 minutes are for both forkd for a time of 4 weeks, the 40 minutes for a time of 8 weeks for slowfork.
Add the value crashing, there's enough time to do some real damage, in the worst case to both Gavincoin and Mirceacoin.

This math assumes the fork starts just after adjustment.