Quote from: BostonRedsocks on April 16, 2017, 02:55:41 AM

A unique part about Nexus is the TWO types of hash channels. I get confused about about block frequency, though. From the first post in this thread:

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Prime and Hashing Minting Channels: The effective reward is established by the reserve balances. These reserves have a decayed amount deposited every time interval of one minute. If the balance is below a given threshold, the reward value will be based on a times value of a decayed amount. This means that the reward will be given based on how long it was taken to create the block. This prevents the reserves from being depleted as large amounts of computing power jump on and off the mining network.

How does this work? I see real blocks in the block explorer sometimes only 10s older than the previous one. Does this mean that miner only got 10/60th of a reward for that block?

Does the hash mining success reset the prime mining, and vice versa? Or does every block need to have one hash success and one prime success?
My guess is either a hash or prime miner success resets the block, but the prime and hash mining rewards each have their own separate timers for partial rewards?

How is hash difficulty set? Is it adaptive, so perhaps if you get lots of 10s blocks from fast hash miners, the difficulty goes up until the frequency drops to an average of 1 m? Does hash difficulty change prime difficulty?

Is it possible each block that gets mined by the hash algorithm sends the unused prime reward to the Nexus authors, and each block that gets PRIME mined sends the unused hash reward to the them instead. This keeps the hash and prime rewards in sync, but still rewards the miners and the Nexus guys.

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