7 nodes in the network..
price goes down day by day...
Still lot of orphans everyday and nobody can solomine cause the riepool fork.
There are 2 solutions. Stop mining riepool or Simone (Simba84) stops forking the chain.
If not, this coin is going to disappear.
Gatra let's find a way to exclude rouge nodes in the network, or blacklist them. Simba84 has always been hostile against this coin.
25-50% of all mined blocks are orphans - riecoin network is on the brink of complete collapse.
How to prevent that: maybe to add much more confirmations ~ 100 for block to be valid and/or to change difficulty adjustments to every 1 hour(24 blocks) to prevent massive jumping in to network after 12h high difficulty period is off.
Second measure - change how network operates - to make nodes auto-rejects of orphan blocks solutions,so every block will be mined until we get a valid block solution on network.
Sounds good to me ... Gatra, what do you think?
Adding confirmations is a good safety measure but doesn't prevent forks. Neither do changes in the difficulty adjustments.
I was thinking about forbidding reorganizations... so a large alternate chain would be rejected even if it had more work and the network would keep stable, but this solution has the risk of splitting the network.
The other option I considered was checkpointing as in PoS coins, but it's a centralized solution and the checkpointing server could be DDoS'd.
There's no perfect solution. If there are problems again I'm considering investing heavily in mining on an independent well-behaving pool so the chain with most of the miners always wins.