Quote from: brakmic on May 21, 2019, 08:58:39 PM

Quote from: drays on May 21, 2019, 09:14:19 AM

What biazar tells is perfectly valid, and those are purely technical issues with the coin code. There are actually two major (and separate) issues, listed here in order of their severity (in my view):

a) some nodes are extremely more lucky than others. It means they get staking rewards much more often than others, regardless of their balance. I cannot be sure, but I assume those people were smart enough to modify the code somehow, and found a way to get more rewards than others. I suppose they are good programmers, and it is a challenge for a programmer to find the exploit they use.
b) the masternode payments are not enforced, so some stakers do not pay to masternodes at all. It could be either because their node is not reliably connected to the network, so it doesn't see masternodes, or because they modified the code to ignore the masternodes. By coincidence, most of those stakers are the most lucky ones

I believe those issues are purely technical (because it actually is one of the main innovations offered by cryptocurrency - the invention of technical methods to make it impossible for individual players to cheat), and it would be nice if someone finds the way how those cheats were applied, and most importantly, finds the way to fix this (make cheating not possible) with a wallet upgrade. Most surely this will not cause consensus change, but rather an enforcement of the existing consensus rules. This is a really good challenge for a really good programmer Wink

P.S. I don't specifically refer to brakmic above... I suppose the people who made possible those hacks, might have an idea on how to modify the source code to make cheating impossible. It would be nice for them to post a fix and finally change their black hat to white one. In any case it doesn't make any sense to cheat here, on a coin which is close to extinction due to lack of exchanges and community support. It is much more sensible to help it grow, at least to protect one's investment..

What I know from the code is that the Spork SPORK_1_MASTERNODE_PAYMENTS_ENFORCEMENT_DEFAULT gets marked as unknown. Just go through your logs to see it. Search for "Spork unknown" and similar entries. I am not sure why is this happening as I don't know the whole "code"-past of this coin and what changes got into it over the last few years.

I think that the only "sane" way would be to create a new coin, with a certain premine and offer the holders on 8bit coins a time window to swap the old coins for new ones. Although I personally hate premines as they almost always mean something's scammy, there is no other, more "economic" way to get rid of the old code and start with a new blank page.

good morning man !
If you have the time and you are willing to do this, then i support what you state. lets wait for others feedback to see where they stand.
I mean its better to restart and know what the code does in all of its states and it would be faster to implement changes, upgrades, etc. with a fresh clean up to date code.