Quote from: eschmenk on March 17, 2014, 09:33:11 PM

Quote from: hostmaster on March 06, 2014, 05:07:46 AM

PoW:
- Random 100000 - 300000 coins per block for the first 45 days evenly distribution

I think you probably need to make the reward a constant 200000 coins per block and do it quickly. Given the way the net hash keeps jumping around recently, it looks like big hash is jumping in to cherry-pick the high reward blocks. That's the same problem DOGE had and is why they hard forked just now to make their reward constant. It's not fair to those of us who are mining constantly to have someone else come in and cherry-pick the high-reward blocks.

This is the last 20 blocks mined at the ECC - Cloudminers pool. Note how few blocks they have been able to find today that were > 200000 ECC.

Block Validity Finder Time Difficulty Amount Expected Shares Actual Shares Percentage Totals 1,514,825 1,317,062 86.94 20325 105 left 56337304 17/03 21:43:41 18.60 120,560.00 76,192 3,600 4.72 20321 101 left 56337304 17/03 21:40:41 20.45 116,923.15 83,748 93,032 111.09 20235 15 left 56337304 17/03 20:34:07 18.37 126,882.00 75,256 21,639 28.75 20212 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 20:16:12 21.28 273,355.02 87,182 10,306 11.82 20202 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 20:07:31 20.85 204,824.00 85,392 111,694 130.80 20079 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 18:35:59 15.97 150,222.00 65,433 18,964 28.98 20063 Confirmed vadimka6 17/03 18:21:34 18.88 142,928.00 77,326 37,110 47.99 20030 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 17:55:42 20.16 188,976.00 82,563 34,736 42.07 19948 Confirmed wabigong 17/03 16:52:45 18.30 144,630.00 74,958 57,655 76.92 19893 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 16:08:00 22.85 127,907.00 93,599 35,280 37.69 19853 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 15:39:34 19.76 146,626.04 80,948 59,706 73.76 19451 Confirmed wabigong 17/03 10:30:57 18.37 185,428.10 75,233 132,891 176.64 18706 Confirmed 56337304 17/03 00:57:21 19.92 171,361.00 81,572 88,662 108.69 18612 Confirmed wabigong 16/03 23:49:34 15.04 120,713.01 61,600 75,440 122.47 18542 Confirmed 56337304 16/03 22:51:43 20.29 145,538.01 83,088 98,984 119.13 18439 Confirmed 56337304 16/03 21:36:00 16.92 276,971.03 69,313 79,562 114.79 18358 Confirmed 56337304 16/03 20:36:19 12.82 279,638.00 52,530 118,156 224.93 18248 Confirmed 56337304 16/03 19:08:32 16.33 157,691.00 66,870 50,119 74.95 18203 Confirmed 56337304 16/03 18:33:51 16.79 145,128.02 68,765 148,683 216.22 18049 Confirmed 56337304 16/03 16:34:58 17.89 298,055.01 73,257 40,843 55.75

And yes, even though the reward is supposed to be random, as soon as a block is solved, it's possible to calculate the reward for the next bock. See "Something is rotten in the state of DOGE mining" for a description of the problem as it occurred with Dogecoins. I would be very surprised if ECC somehow did things differently.

BTW, I shortened someone's ID in the table to make the columns line up better. The table is here, but may change by the time you look at it.

Can someone verify if this is a problem with ECCHouse? They are so large it couldn't be just a matter of luck if it shows up there. I don't have an account with them and they don't provide that information to the public. The average reward for the last 24 hours would be great to know. For ECC - Cloudminers, it was about 157,000, instead of 200,000.

Thanks i am checking on it if necessary i will update, I am afraid those one of pools may do some strange tactics. I prepare our official pool for the next week. We can there better see what looks like a good pool.