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Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake
by
chilly2k
on 15/07/2015, 02:47:56 UTC
Would the orphans % be number of orphans / total stakes (valid + orphans)

Yes.

for the last week.

date                      Starting balance     Stakes   Percentage  orphans.   orphan %

7/13                      2546                     5          .1963         
7/12                      2540                     6          .2362
7/11                      2537                     3          .1182           1            25%
7/10                      2532                     5          .1975           1            17%
7/09                      2531                     1          .0395           1            50%
7/08                      2531                     0           0             
7/07                      2527                     4          .1583           1            20%
7/06                      2519                     8          .3176

I guess 2500 is too small a number to quickly get an idea of the orphan rate, but that looks like 4 orphans out of 36 stakes, or 11% so far. The variance is huge, with your daily orphan rate ranging from 0% to 50%...

Went back and looked at Mar/Apr and May.  I didn't have the patience to calculate how many Clams I had on each dates, so I just looked at the total stakes Vs orphans. 

March     131 stakes    5 orphans.     3.7%
April      124 stakes     8 orphans      6%
May       141 stakes     0 orphans

April was interesting.  There were 5 orphans between the 5th and 7th.  I don't remember anything going on, on my end at that time... 

Then just for giggles I went back to Oct.  This would be before JD came online

Oct    61 stakes   3 orphans.   4.7% 

     So I don't think the 15% orphan theory is really holding up.  I'm guessing I end up averaging about 4-6% orphans.  And that hasn't really changed since JD started.
 
I was going to look at Nov, but the 11th was he hard fork, and I ended up on the wrong chain for a little while.   24 orphans in 3 hours...  not good for the statistics.