In the last couple of days my qt client on win7 64bit is having problems syncing up. Has the number of full nodes dropped or am I just unlucky? Its also prone to crash since I did a resync.
On the first issue could XCN pay for full nodes in the way it pays for miners? So say every 2000 blocks it could divide a special reward of XCN to all full nodes which have been up since the last reward. This would keep the number of full nodes from dropping as in other coins like BTC. This reminds me, the CPU utilization is much higher than my blackcoin wallet even when it's staking. I assume this is either a coding issue or the M7 PoW lacks the 'ease of verification' which sha256 has? This could cause scalability issues later.
On the 2nd issue could we have an install and uninstall option or put all the config setting in a config file in the cryptonite directory rather than filling up the registry.
It's a very interesting coin which certainly fixes some of the major issues with bitcoin. Imagine being able to run a full node with no third party involved on your smartphone. But it needs to stay flexible to fix other issues as everything needs to be right for a small coin to stand a chance.