LOL, funny that its never been stranded once, despite huge swells in difficulty and influxes and exoduses of hashrate. the retarget works perfectly. there is nothing broken about the ppcoin code.. i challenge you to try the coin before spouting your pompus opinions based in your own assumptions.
well, is it the right code than or not ?
problem is he deleted the original source code before he sent me the client. i decided to move forward any way with the 1 coin rewards. as a compromise, we premined 250 blocks. he got 101 blocks and my computer got 149 blocks. in the grand scheme of things, yes it was a premine but it was much smaller than the planned premine. the original block rewards were supposed to be 22.5 coins per block then gradually tapering down to .0777 coins per block. since the block rewards seem to be locked in at 1 coin per block i decided that premining 177,777 blocks would not only be unfair, it would be not feasible. as far as the diff retarget though, it works. i don't know if it was a line of bull he fed me but it seems to retarget gracefully on each block. we've had influxes of 120 m/h both ways and the coin just keeps chugging along. overall i'm happy with how it turned out. i like the idea of the proof of stake checkpoints and transaction based demurrage. one thing that bugs me is that the various source codes he has provided never compile for anyone on linux, which is a bummer.