I literally just finalized an offer to sell a house so that I can expand my mining operation to stabilize the network--I'm not joking. I expect to have 30 khash/s worth of hashing power in the next month or two, which still won't be enough.
I told that to my woman, so she will go easier on me now.Haha yes, she needs to know it could be A LOT worse. You don't even want to know the kind of heat I'm living in at times. You REALLY don't want to know.
I have a pretty good feeling about what is happening now:
We build PoW+PoS+PoW chain with a trust of 10+11+20=41 for example.
Minutes later attacker broadcasts PoW+PoW+PoW+PoW+PoW (10+10+10+10+10=50) and kicks our blocks out.
But the real problem is that PoW difficulty in our branch get's adjusted towards 2 minute spacing when PoS block arives. On the other hand, attacker's blocks are stil one minute apart, so he is mining on lower difficulty, has more time and is able to overtake us eventually (before our POW difficulty readjusts back). It might be that in addition to having more hashing power.
Just one more thing to consider while refactoring GetBlockTrust method.
We build PoW+PoS+PoW chain with a trust of 10+11+20=41 for example.
Minutes later attacker broadcasts PoW+PoW+PoW+PoW+PoW (10+10+10+10+10=50) and kicks our blocks out.
But the real problem is that PoW difficulty in our branch get's adjusted towards 2 minute spacing when PoS block arives. On the other hand, attacker's blocks are stil one minute apart, so he is mining on lower difficulty, has more time and is able to overtake us eventually (before our POW difficulty readjusts back). It might be that in addition to having more hashing power.
Just one more thing to consider while refactoring GetBlockTrust method.
Just a thought, what if the PoW-PoS-PoW calculation was changed to something ridiculously favoring PoS? Such as 10+11+40...
By the way, the 24-hour volume is ZERO across all exchanges and trading pairs. It appears the YAC Monster
A) Is away from his massive mining setup (for the weekend?)
B) Has moved on to a different, assumed more profitable, coin
C) Has decided the price is now at a point that is no longer profitable to mine
D) Is planning an incredibly massive reorg (How deep can it go?)
E) Is showing mercy
F) Some combination of the above
Also, it's looking like the block reward may very well hit the max 100 YAC per block, which is interesting...