Quote from: arjay45 on May 16, 2013, 06:25:22 AM

Quote from: c4n10 on May 16, 2013, 06:19:41 AM

What are you talking about...? At difficulty 0.25 with 350 KH/s you should find a block roughly every hour, that is hardly scraps. Coins shouldn't be made with the intention of everyone getting thousands of coins in the first few days so they can hoard them until the coin reaches an exchange and then dump their thousands of coins on the market decreasing the value of the coin instantaneously. Any coin designed to be intentionally pumped and dumped shouldn't bother being released.

I agree. For a GPU mined coin 0.25 is a pretty fair starting difficulty. There will be MUCH fewer orphans, and people will still get a large number of coins in the first few days. It's just the coins will be spread out to more miners that's all.

It also has the bonus side effect of helping to keep your coin within your desired block-target parameters. All the coins now are going through their first "week" of blocks in a matter of hours or days. For example, Worldcoin has a block target of 15 seconds yet for the first ~10,000+ blocks the blocks are coming in every second, sometimes multiple blocks per second. This doesn't balance out until the coin reaches higher difficulties (usually around 0.25 or so which is why I chose that for 0pticoin's starting difficulty).