What I can't understand is why the advice of experienced community members whose expertise is in mining and network security is being ignored, and instead the dev team and community keeps running simulations and chasing some elusive solution.
The Criptoe group is a mining group, between the 5 of us, we have nearly 10 years of mining experience using CPU's, GPU's, and ASIC's across a broad range of coins. We have been involved behind the scenes with a number of coins to test and implement code. I have successfully executed time warp, double spends, and 51% attacks against several coin networks to better learn how to keep a coin network secure and healthy. Criptoe is not a loud and flashy outfit, but we all have real life experience with mining crypto-currency.
This is not a 'told-you-so' or a 'we-are-so-good' post, but the dev team did approach Criptoe to set-up a NLG pool shortly after the launch of NLG. I have been mining NLG since it was a difficulty of 2 or so. I have sold less than 10% of all the NLG I have mined. I am most likely the largest stakeholder of NLG in the world. I am still mining and buying NLG. I have a very vested interest in seeing NLG succeed. And I believe that NLG will succeed for all the same reasons each of you do.
I am not active on the Gulden Forum nor have I joined the 1680 Club, because I don't have time to visit another forum. Just like I don't have time for Twitter, Facebook or any other social media.
Review the posts of Criptoe members, Fuse, JohnDec2, and myself in particular, and you find that our advice was not heeded and we were quite confident in the current outcome.
The problem is being over complicated and confused. Give those of us with experience the opportunity to help and I am pretty confident that a solution can be found with minimal pain and delay.
EDIT - the difficulty on the network just jumped from the high 200's to 699... the network will be unusable for a few hours now... meaning that no transactions will be able to be executed or confirmed outside of LitePaid...