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Re: **Mincoin** Bronze To Bitcoin Gold [minute blocks] [scrypt mining]
by
tacotime
on 03/04/2013, 05:13:14 UTC
Umm, that looks like the current height.

If we can see what the difficulty was at the first block, we can determine how fast blocks were generated. Right now I see one or two blocks a minute with getinfo.

Even with 1 MH, you could probably get hundreds of blocks in an hour, I think.

Code:
static CBigNum bnProofOfWorkLimit(~uint256(0) >> 16); // mincoin: starting difficulty is 1 / 2^15
or difficulty = 0.000030517578125

Difficulty adjusts twice per day, to a maximum of
Code:
    while (nTime > 0 && bnResult < bnProofOfWorkLimit)
    {
        // Maximum 400% adjustment...
        bnResult *= 4;
        // ... in best-case exactly 4-times-normal target time
        nTime -= nTargetTimespan*4;
    }
400%!

So if our benevolent preminers went whole hog on the network, the maximum difficulty by block 2880 (when reward went down to 50) would be a whopping 0.0078125!

Show's over, go home folks.