Quote from: rmd79 on March 01, 2014, 12:40:30 PM

Quote from: Soepkip on March 01, 2014, 12:01:59 PM

Quote from: BitcoinStacker on March 01, 2014, 12:00:46 PM

92,5%!!

I keep telling this, but mining will end on March 3rd 4:40 UTC.
Blocknumbers are not leading. And if they are we would have much less coins in the system making this coin even more scarce.

I think PoW will be ending at block 10,000 - so in about 5 hours or less. I don't think we have until March 3rd 4:40 UTC to mine PoW. The reason being, I edited the rocminer.cpp file in the wallet and added some printf's to tell me what the value of pindexBest->nHeight is. Here is the result:

Code:

fprintf(stderr, "BLOCKS: %d\n", pindexBest->nHeight);

Output:

BLOCKS: 9314

Which means the pindexBest->nHeight variable value is 9314, which was the current block at the time I wrote this.

This code, will prevent any new PoW blocks:

if (pindexBest->nHeight >= LAST_POW_BLOCK)
throw JSONRPCError(RPC_MISC_ERROR, "No more PoW blocks");

LAST_POW_BLOCK value is 10000, as seen here:

./blackcoin/src/main.h:static const int LAST_POW_BLOCK = 10000;

So, looks like we stop mining PoW in about 5 hours and our coins will be more scarce, unless there is a patch by the dev.

I say 5 hours based on roughly how long it took to get through the last 1000 blocks.

Please correct me if I'm wrong or missing something.

Rob.

Thanks for this.
One thing also to consider is the sudden downtrend of the difficulty and reduction of the network hash

Presently the diff is 93.45923091
And Network Hashrate is 8.54 GH/s