ShibeCoin Network Issue Resolution and Transition to Pure Proof-of-Stake
As everybody is aware the ShibeCoin network experienced odd proof-of-work behavior earlier today. As a result we have taken the step of moving to pure proof of stake slightly sooner than planned.
Over the course of the proof-of-work mining period we have consistently experienced "stuck" blocks. This is a common problem in popular coins and occurs due to rapid changes in network hashrate that drive the difficulty up. It is this problem that algorithms like Kimoto Gravity Well and DigiShield were created to solve. In ShibeCoin's case, we used the DigiShield algorithm. This would bring the difficulty back down so the network would not be stuck forever.
The strange behavior we saw earlier today was a result of a bug in the implementation of DigiShield in our code. I was already aware of the issue, but overlooked putting the PoS wrapper code around the block indexer in the difficulty algorithm. The algorithm looks at previous blocks to calculate solving time to then make an adjustment. In Proof-of-Stake coins you need to wrap the pointer to the previous block in a method that iterates based on whether the block you are looking for is a stake block or a PoW block. Without this check, once staking occurred on the network the difficulty adjustment picked up the stake difficulty and used it to retarget the PoW difficulty. The result were rapid jumps from difficulties of 100+ to difficulties of 0-1.
We have cutoff PoW at block 5430. We moved it up slightly because we noticed the network sticking again, and folks were growing tired of working through the stuck blocks.
Now that we are in pure proof-of-stake mode, network transaction processing is dependent upon users staking in their wallets. As part of the staking process blocks are minted and the network moves along, as staking is another form of mining. Leave your wallet open and running, unlocked for minting if you have encrypted it, and you will earn stake interest on your coins as well as transaction processing fees.
The minimum coin age in ShibeCoin is now 8 hours, and the maximum coin age or coin age maturity is 8 days. This means that you can begin earning stake as soon as after 8 hours of coin age, but as you move closer to 8 days you have a greater chance of winning stake. After that staking occurs as a luck of the draw process. The best thing you can do to support the network is to leave your wallet running and staking and contribute to the network transaction processing.
Thank you to everyone involved for your patience and understanding while we have worked through these issues, often under the pressure of extreme FUD. Now it is time to look to the future and to grow the ShibeCoin community.
Best Wishes,
energion
Anyone that's not an amateur knows it's not an common problem for a coin to fork multiple times in less than a week. It's an incompetent and amateur 'dev' looking to cash in quick profits.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=595767.msg6713631#msg6713631It's also not FUD when the FACTS show this nothing more than an insta-mine SCAM. The only fear is by the baghoders that keep pumping this scam. The only uncertainty and doubt is why anyone would think this is anything other than what the facts make it obvious that it is!
Over 50 blocks were mined more than AN HOUR before the coin was launched here in a ninja announcement. The block explorer shows a total of 56 blocks, including the first 50 with the largest rewards were mined before the coin was even announced. That's even worse than an insta-mine scam, given the only ones that could have mined those blocks were the 'dev' and those he let know over an hour before anyone else.
Any one that's ever been at a coin launch knows it doesn't take an hour to mine 50 blocks when the diff is 0.00002 and the BS that a pool got those coins simply doesn't add up, especially when the largest block rewards are 100% skewed towards the beginning when the diff is the lowest and insta-ming before and after the announcement was made is the easiest thing to do with the way the coin was launched in a ninja announcement. In addition to having zero innovation and being a 100% Doge ripoff, for the 'dev' to try and capitalize off the work the Doge community accomplished in raising $55,000 to sponsor a NASCAR team, by releasing his shitcoin on the same day Doge introduced their NASCAR team, shows how classless they are in their attempt to make a quick profit.
Shibecoin Is The New Doge Ripoff And Latest Altcoin Ninja Launchhttp://altcoinherald.com/shibecoin-new-doge-ripoff-latest-altcoin-ninja-launch/Shibe Coin, a complete ripoff of Doge Coin, likely a scam - an article by The Cryptocurrency Timeshttp://www.usacryptocoins.com/thecryptocurrencytimes/uncategorized/shibe-coin-a-complete-ripoff-of-doge-coin-likely-a-scam/The 50 blocks that were mined before the announcement was made contained the highest rewards and amounted to 6,250,000 coins out of the total of 252,500,000 mined during the PoW stage. That equals 2.5% of the PoW coin total + an additional 1,500,000 coins from the announced 0.5% premine.
8,750,000 coins were mined BEFORE the announcement was even made..
The coin was announced at 3:03 PM EDT The block explorer shows there were 56 blocks mined BEFORE the coin was announced. To say the coin was not insta-mined both BEFORE and after the announcement was made is simply not the truth. People need to know this before investing or believing the hype.
http://192.227.251.74:8888/chain/ShibeCoin?hi=59&count=6057 2014-05-04 19:04:48 1 100000 1.009 6950000 0.018912 2.61897 0%
56 2014-05-04 19:01:50 1 100000 0.84 6850000 0.0171296 2.61691 0%
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54 2014-05-04 19:00:35 1 100000 0.473 6650000 0.0167708 2.61604 0%
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