we were hit with a massive mining farm (or three) almost immediately upon launch. it was halfway expected to happen, but nowhere near that much. 8 SOIL block reward is actually more generous than ETH (5) or SHF (3), two of the other ETH-based coins, and is the same as EXP. within an hour, a single wallet address (the biggest farm to hit us) was nearly 10,000 SOIL.

the hasimoto dagger algorithm is ASIC-resistant, unfortunately it isnt ASIC-PROOF. i did research in the weeks approaching launch, if we could find a single IP governor to cap hashrates coming in, but sadly, theres no such thing invented yet.

"fair launch" isnt about how fast the network hashes, its about ensuring everyone has plenty of foreknowledge regarding WHEN the launch is, with ample communication regarding when the main net packages would be released, which to prevent malicious mining before our scheduled launch, were naturally released approximately 15 minutes before actual launch. there was no way to prevent how we were mined by third parties at the moment of launch

the system is much ore stable now, block times are much closer to their targeted time, and the variant gravity well difficulty algorithm is operating as it should. the difficulty algorithm cant adjust by several factors immediately, but did so incrementally as the system began to gain its traction.