Quote from: iGotSpots on February 12, 2014, 10:44:39 PM

Quote from: djmuk on February 12, 2014, 10:32:33 PM

perhaps we should do a deliberate fork? Set up a pool that the diff hoppers don't know about, mine on that with the wallet unsynced - the diff should drop off so we get consistent (~1min) block times with a consistent hash rate, then we have the longest chain once we resync... Just bar any userid that mines for <10minutes?

Go ahead. Those coins would be useless though since all the exchanges and everything else would be on a different fork

I thought in the event of a fork the longest block chain won, so a chain that has been generating blocks every minute will win out over one where the difficulty gets spiked and so the block generation slows right down... Basis of the 51% attack - generate a 'false' block chain faster than the 'real' one...

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