Quote from: DRobert on February 20, 2014, 08:10:27 PM

Quote from: ckoeber on February 20, 2014, 08:07:42 PM

Quote from: DRobert on February 20, 2014, 07:57:23 PM

The difficulty jumps and changes are so fucking awesome. Seriously. I like how it fucks over the Multipools. Mine pools are the reason coins like Leaf and Moon get fucked over and freeze up the market to big time lows (apart from whale manipulation doing that). It seems Spots was on to something really good with it and miners who really care about the coin and investors like myself don't get fucked over as much. It seems to work similar as Gravity Well that those coins want to add in order to resist the Multipools

Yeah. I trust Spots will keep doing what he was doing and I hope I'm buying in low for a nice ride to da moon.

You're not screwing over the multi-pools; you are screwing over the individual miners and Spots pool operators (like myself) who then get a huge swing to 5.0~8.0 difficulty and then it takes much longer to get a single coin.

You seem to forget pre-fork when the difficulty would spike up to 25 (or even higher in some cases) while the coin value was really low. So it would literally take hours (a day in extreme cases) to get a single coin as most of the miners left to mine something more profitable.

Multi-pools will ALWAYS mine the most profitable coin regardless of difficulty (DOGECoin for example) so the only people difficulty swings hurt is everyone else, including you.

Noted.

You make a compelling case. Alright. I am persuaded. How do we go about making it better for our community while keeping Multi-pools away then?

The key to good mining is consistency.

You really can't do shit about multi-pools. Forget about worrying about them.

Build the coin around miners; Low, incremental and predictable changes in difficulty is the key.