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Re: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Hybrid PoW/PoS | btcsuite Devs | Tons of New Features | Go
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P-Funk
on 29/12/2015, 02:45:31 UTC
Coming here from the post on Slashdot. I like several features of this currency, and have a few questions.


Cold staking and decentralized stake pooling. Sounds great but how?

Voting/polling is good. But why is the plan to split blocks 60% with miners and 40% with stakers? Why not make it an even split?

Immutable tx ids, excellent.

Script enhancements and new OP codes, what will these be and for what purpose?

Self-funded development via block subsidy, 10%. I feel this is way too much of a cut. Please consider reducing it by a lot or withdrawing these plans altogether considering you're also taking 4% of the 21 million total premine.

"Simple GPU miner." I'd look at getting mining Decred supported in a mature mining program like bfgminer or sgminer instead of rolling something new. These mature mining programs support AMD Overdrive features already, so that means overclocking, temperature reading, etc built-in. Ethminer, the miner program for Ethereum, was less useful without these features.