Hi strelok369,

From a mathematical perspective, what do you think about the idea of breaking up the tendency for harmonics to develop, by replacing just the "36" portion of "SMA36LIM12" with a prime number pseudo-randomly at each block retarget, to be selected from a table? For example, if we take the least significant 4 bits of the hash of the last block, and used it to look up a table of 16 prime numbers for example consisting of {7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67}. Why this sequence of prime numbers? It's the closest consecutive list of prime numbers that approaches the average of 36 that we already have in place (average of this list of primes is 34.875 and median is 31 or 37, so responsiveness to sudden changes in hash power would roughly match what we have now at 36, actually slightly better). And why prime numbers? By using prime numbers, we eliminate any unintended/unforeseen harmonics that could happen in relation to sampling sizes. Even if there is no danger of harmonics in this sense, it seems good to spread out the numbers a bit, and using prime numbers seems as good a way as any to distribute the numbers.

Thank you for your thoughts.

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