The rate of "orphans" looks the same still, but it stakes alright. Like Draax pointed out; if your rate of stake slows to a crawl just combine your coins and staking will shoot back up, this did not change.
krile, after a full 24+ hours did you notice any stalls in the chain? I didn't notice any but I didn't look that closely.
Yes the stalls are gone now.
I am actually thinking that the chain is too fast at this current block time.
Any opinions on increasing block time? Maybe to 5 minutes (effectively 2.5 minutes when you consider both pow and pos mining).
I am seriously thinking about that path, it would further reduce the orphans, and the chain would bloat less with time. Its a shame to have so many blocks for so few transactions.
Opinions?
Edit: and also, the next release will probably drop the end of PoW mining. According to the vote "most" people are in favor of that option.
Edit2: also, thinking about increasing the maturity. The current 25 block maturity is too favorable to rich nodes staking, they get a chance to stake again too fast...
Any thoughts on all this?