How about for a start do the following:

- Nodes reject blocks more than 3 minutes in the future (POS or POW doesn't matter)
- This rule is enforced starting at block xyz (couple of days from now)

That way people have time to move over to the new version.
Old version will still be fine until this happens again, then they'll fork off (and should have upgraded)

Ignoring the half Chinese nonsense bot posts,

Please fork / fix. Right now this can happen again at any moment and only you (as major POS owner) can cause (and fix) it, which is not a good thing for a coin.

If you put up a fixed version I'll immediately update it everywhere. My main node always has more than 30 connections to it so it'll help force the chain over.

Please make the new version compulsory after 1,000 blocks or so.
 

Nice centralized coin you have there.

This needs to be fixed asap otherwise no use continuing.

IMHO it _should_ fork as the blocks from that point are obviously wrong and only 'cheaters' profit.

Not gonna mess with my system time. Closing deamons until good fix is found.

Something wrong with the chain?

LPool: Last share 29 hours ago
Solo: Everything rejected
Also haven't seen a POS hit for a day or so.

Please check?

No firmware, as it is an ASIC miner. If you want to look at how these things work, there's a good chance the individual cores run a version close to this FPGA implementation, but of course at higher clock rates and there are 64 of these in the chip:

https://github.com/kramble/FPGA-Litecoin-Miner

The 'controller' is just a USB to Serial interface to the ASIC, nothing to see there

I don't know where you got your version of bfgminer from, but download it as instructed on the first page.
If you unzip it and there is still no bfgminer.exe it got eaten by your virus scanner (as also mentioned on the first page)

bfgminer-rpc is not the droid you're looking for.

Then you most likely:

- don't have a common ground or
- you cut supply to the USB chip as well or
- Your power supply doesn't supply a stable enough voltage at low startup current.

If you use a 'standard' ATX computer power supply, they don't really work well at very low loads. See here for a description and solution:

https://mysite.du.edu/~etuttle/electron/elect62.htm

If you're soldering anyway, it's probably easier (and safer) to just buy a $5 USB HUB and modify the 5V line there. There's usually already a provision for external power in these.

As easy as indeed cutting the 5V power trace and soldering your own 5V supply to it, and GND. All GNDs are common.

Yes:

... -S MLD:all --set MLD@COM7:clock=924 --set MLD@COM8:clock=796

(official notation should be --set MLD@\\.\COMx:clock=nnn but this works as well)

If you set it to something not in the list it will go to the default speed.

Try to start at the low end of the speed table, and work up from there. Adjust core voltage when it no longer hashes reliably.
Don't start anywhere near 800 until it's tuned in and you're sure the temperature is manageable.

Just get a dogecoin address and add : to the password. Everything will work just the same and you can always use shapeshift or similar to exchange your doggies to LTC if you happen to find some.

For local wallet mining try something like this:

bfgminer.exe --scrypt -o http://localhost: -u -p --expiry 30 --scan-time 5 --no-longpoll --no-gbt -S MLD:all

Look up 'opportunity cost'

In cases like this it's always better to just spend the money to buy those coins instead of pay for electricity..
Same outlay, more coins.

As mentioned in the first 3 posts (FAQ) and several times in this thread...
your stupid windows defender or other antivirus deleted the exe file..

It's not really out of sync. Difficulty adjustment is a complete mess, so the current block has become so hard it will take a 'while' at current hashrate. Because the wallet hasn't seen a block for a long time, it thinks it's out of sync.

Big miner comes, mines 10 blocks at full speed in under a minute, emergency adjustment kicks in, makes next block way too hard, big miner runs away, normal miners get stuck with the hard block.
When someone eventually finds it the emergency adjustment adjust diff to nothing (been too long since last block), which immediately triggers a big miner to mine 10 blocks... rinse, repeat.

Result of this algorithm that was supposed to fix greedy miners:
- greedy miners get most of the blocks in no time at all
- baseline miners share the hard blocks
- coins won't move for several hours

Please fix..