Again, the "burst mining" by granatgas-pool on low difficulty blocks causes ever increasing difficulty with the DGW algorithm and once the difficulty reaches a certain threshold, then burst mining stops leaving the remaining small pool of miners to solve the highest difficulty blocks. See the curved cliffs of difficulty on the POW Network Difficulty chart http://das.thecryptochat.net/index.php? ? What used to be a much smoother "wave" is now a fast peak and drop thanks to granatgas-pool controlling most of the hashrate after hexpool went DOA. Previously having hexpool consistently mining DAS prevented these cliffs and manipulation of the blockchain.

Right now stuck on block 42726 with base difficulty of 5420.38. Once the long-term (ethical) miners solve this, then here comes the burst mining from granatgas-pool to quickly gobble up the easy blocks and their higher mining rewards.

Personally, I consider this a mining ATTACK against DAS. Using difficulty monitoring and thresholds, the multipool at granatgas-pool is exploiting a weakness with DGW that is built in with Dash-forked coins. Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. Apparently profit is the main motivation at all costs.

a.) the difficulty algo needs to be adjusted to deter these burst mining attacks

b.) the offending pool needs to somehow be "blacklisted" or prevented from submitting blocks to the DAS blockchain due to the malignant nature of their activity

This needs to be analyzed and solved SOONER rather than LATER and is just another reason why there should be a DEV TEAM for a coin to pool skills, experiences and resources in REAL TIME to correct issues like this and the many others that need to be addressed with DAS.

Regards,

c_p