Quote from: stbgefltc on July 18, 2013, 09:03:09 AM

Quote from: oatmo on July 18, 2013, 03:31:17 AM

Everything looks good since the algo update. One possible future update suggestion is that just like we have the 4 hour forced retarget for too slow, it's probably a good idea to have one for too fast as well... Something like if you get 15 blocks (30 minutes worth) in less than 7.5 minutes (running 4x too fast) then you force a retarget as well. This would more effectively handle cases where a ton of hash power gets added quickly without generating a ton of orphans.

Just a thought.

Oatmo

Indeed, with the added benefit of dettering coin hoppers. However, we need to be careful with this, as we've seen yesterday that despite us annoucing the upgrade long before the new rules, and contacting service providers, not everyone did upgrade. We can still implement the feature, but given it's not as critical, I think it needs a big delay before kicking in, at least 30K blocks, if not more. Since the retargets work properly now, we can safely assume an approximate 2 minute block time... giving about a month's delay before the new rules.

Totally Agree... Figure out if there is anything else worth updating, then make it a long ways out. Nothing is killing us at this point, it's just an improvement.