Quote from: mahowi on March 12, 2014, 09:40:43 PM

Quote from: chaeplin on March 12, 2014, 09:37:27 PM

oh man...

{
   "blocks" : 32461,
   "currentblocksize" : 1825,
   "currentblocktx" : 3,
   "difficulty" : 10048.43423331,
   "errors" : "",
   "generate" : false,
   "genproclimit" : -1,
   "hashespersec" : 0,
   "networkhashps" : 12589130728,
   "pooledtx" : 3,
   "testnet" : false
}

http://darkcoin.mine.nu/graph.html

How could difficulty rise from 420 to 10k in this short time?

Edit: ...and back to 750.

Code:

"difficulty" : 749.98240862

The actual equipment necessary is tremendous if it were to do this naturally. Boiling everything down to i7 processors and r9 290's . . in order to double the difficulty . . you need double the equipment. Looking at suchpool.pw . . the net hashes right now are 12g#. Taking this as normal with 306 difficulty . . then the hashes number would need to double to take it to 612 difficulty. Then double again to take it to 1224 difficulty. Then double again to take it to 2500 difficulty, again to 5k, and one last time to 10k difficulty. This ends up being 2^5.

So @ 12 g#, we'd need about 5517 R9 290's . . or about 33k i7 processors just to have it there now.

Doubling this . . 11304 290's, 66k i7's . . about $5.8 million in just GPU hardware ($21 million in processors)
Double again . . 22068 290's, 132k i7's
Double again . . 44136 290's, 264k i7's
Double yet again . . 88272 290's, 528k i7's
One last doubling . . 176544 290's, 1M i7's

Also, normalizing to Scrypt . . a 10k difficulty for this coin is a difficulty of 3872.

Last I checked no one person had pretty much the entire Litecoin network in hashing power . . so I really need to lean toward a bug or serious exploit in the difficulty retargeting algorithm.

Someone please let me know how far off I am.