This stupid EDA is killing Bitcoin Cash.
Any news on when will it be removed?
Are you sure? Wouldn't it be dead if this were the case? On one side we have a case being made that miners are "gaming the system" yet others and even the same claim that the EDA is "broken."
How are we not sure the EDA isn't meant to be in place come November, when BT2 and BTC will fight for hash, and then the EDA can be manipulated to entice hash towards Cash?
I hope BTC has a lot of hash that will stand behind them or they might be left with a parabolic mempool.
Here is the problem with the way the EDA is playing out. If you get into a situation where the difficulty is too low, and the attracted hash is too high, you end up getting blocks that are way less than 1 minute. The faster the blocks come, the more likely the network will become a mire of orphans and reorgs. Furthermore, in order for a pool to start including transactions in a block, they need to verify the validity of all the transaction of the blocks beforehand. With the EDA, you can get into a situation where you have extremely slow blocks followed by a period of extremely fast blocks with little or no transactions.
EDA is there to prevent a death spiral and the destruction of the coin.
Removing it would be stupid.
You want the EDA to be activated less frequently , then buy a warehouse full of ASICS and run it 24x7 to keep the difficulty from dropping.
It is a superior design to segwitcoin 1MB (just waiting for a death spiral coin).
EDA is there for a technical infrastructure reason and so it should remain.
╥Aztek
There are so many other solutions to this "death spiral" problem. There is Digishield, Dark Gravity Wave and many other retarget algos to chose from. There is also merged mining. The EDA has already shown that it falls way short of having relatively consistent and reliable block times.