The number above corresponds to a Riecoin difficulty of 3444.
Wow!
Yes, but all our base primes start with 10000000 in binary so I'd round it up instead of down: 3445 just to be safe
That's about 50% higher than current super-blocks, which might be stretching the monetary purpose of RIC a bit, but would still be feasible I guess. Too bad it would take a hard fork...
I wonder if there could be a way to "vote" for super block difficulty? When bitcoin miners are considering voting for block size, RIC miners could vote for the superblock difficulty multiplier.
This could allow some super-super-block to be voted by miner consensus, to claim a world record, and then miners could resume "normal" difficulty.
Agreed. 50% higher in number of digits means more than ten times of actual work because of the exponential nature of this stuff. One order of magnitude higher, however still doable.
I'm trying to find a way of keeping frequent blocks instead of super-blocks, because some traders rely on the speed of the coin for arbitrage. I don't want to hurt them with transactions that take many hours.