I'm also wondering why the difficulty is going slightly higher with every block we find... shouldn't it go lower since the block took a longer time to be mined? I guess there are some moving averages taken into account which is why the Electroneum team said they need help with the first 27 blocks, maybe that's how long it takes for the blockchain to adjust into the average times of the last blocks.
But still.... block 307499 was at 96.6kkk diff. and now we're at 178.6kkk !! Let's hope that the whatever patch the team issued will be inserted into the pools and help fix the issue. The problem is not so much the diff. as it's the rejection of mined blocks for some technical reason I have not understood. Nanopool and Spacepools have this patch so let's support either of them.
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AND FOR GOD'S SAKE, AVOID MINING ON OTHER CHAINS!!! WE'RE ONLY LOSING POWER FROM THE MAIN CHAIN MAKING THINGS SLOWER Whatever the supporters of forked chains are promising you, is not gonna happen, use your brains and don't be scammed.
The ETN team needs to moderate their greediness a little and buy nicehash power to find these 27 blocks for their money and give themselves a bonus for finding these blocks for more than 4 hours.
Totally agree!!
Before you all agree and fill 5 pages of this thread with requests to the team about buying NiceHash power, check their Twitter/FB page and try to understand that the problem is not ONLY the hashrate.
24 hours ago they explained that blocks are failing even though miners "mine" them and 10 hours ago they issued a fix, asking pool owners to update from github.
Maybe a little extra hashrate would help... but that would be like having a barel with one hole that's losing water, and what you do is fill the barel with more water in order for the level of water to stay still! Better fix the holes in my opinion!