Quote from: clo1 on June 25, 2018, 04:49:36 AM

Hi all. I've been mining Riecoin since January. It is good to see some interest in new exchanges and updating the wallet.

As much as I like Riecoin I have to say I'm a bit bored with finding 6-tuples at half the current record difficulty. If a major effort is going to be made to upgrade the wallet would you consider also changing the algorithm to make finding large clusters a lot easier? It is really a shame that 6-tuples were chosen. A 6-tuple cannot be part of a 7-tuple or any larger constellation. A 7-tuple on the other hand can be part of every constellation up to 15-tuple. lf we switched to looking for 7-tuple blocks then several blocks a day would also be 8-tuples. These would probably be in the range of the current 8-tuple record. Every couple weeks one of the 7-tuples would also be a 9-tuple. This would smash the current record. If the goal is to find large constellations then why stick with an algorithm that guarantees we never find one?

I think I would also add a second chain that looked for 10 or 11-tuples. This would be a GPU friendly chain that could bring in a lot of new interest in Riecoin.

There are several other things we could consider as well. If this was implemented properly we could probably break most of the records from 7 to 13 or 14. I could probably write this part of the code. I'm also willing to help out with the upgrade but I'm much less familiar with the wallet core. Let me know what you think.

That's a fun idea.

I think we should first complete the upgrade -- making *more* changes to the old code before we get updated will just make future integration harder.

Gatra had a related idea for seeing if we could find longer tuples, but I don't want to share his thoughts without permission, so I'll let him chime in. In any event, I think something that increases the flexibility of the tuples to enable us to break more records would be awesome.