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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [XPM] [ANN] Primecoin High Performance
by
minerapia
on 17/07/2013, 22:18:40 UTC
This shouldn't be taken as 100% correct, but I seem to remember it being mentioned that each step up in chain length is a 30 fold increase. so an 8 length chain would be 30x more difficult than a 7 length chain, and a 9 length chain would then be 900x more difficult than a 7 length chain.

So in other words, your average rate of blocks per hour would be the 5-chain rate / 30^(diff - 5). Time to write a script...

Edit: updated the script.

Why did you write this script? what did you change, and what problem did you solve?
Looks to me that its a python script, basicly a frontend for,
currency = {
    "bitcoin": "BTC",
    "chncoin": "CNC",
    "litecoin": "LTC",
    "namecoin": "NMC",
    "ppcoin": "PPC",
    "primecoin": "XPM",
}
Makes bitcoind/primecoind/... usage easier, etc. updated script also tries to estimate block finding time for XPM also.