Quote from: Bitcoin Megastore on May 10, 2013, 09:47:42 PM

Quote from: lightenup on May 10, 2013, 09:11:16 PM

Quote from: Bitcoin Megastore on May 10, 2013, 08:49:34 PM

If I understood correctly, you already hard-forked SMC? If yes, LOL, you shouldn't do it like that! You need to set some future block height an give miners enough time to
upgrade to newest version of the wallet. Unless 51% hashpower is using that newest version of the wallet things will go wrong and many will be really pissed once they find
out they've been mining on abandoned blockchain for days or weeks. Terracoin had 3 hard-forks in very short period of time and network is still in complete chaos due to
many miners or mere users of TRC never upgrading, upgrading once or twice but not three times.

For some updates (e.g. difficulty adjustment algorithm) that would be the proper way. Here the problem is that a few thousand peers of foreign nodes need to get out as fast as possible -- so I opted for this radical update-path.

Hard-fork itself is the ultimate issue, not "few thousand peers of foreign nodes need to get out as fast as possible" or "difficulty adjustment algorithm" or anything else.

The several thousand *incompatible* peer addresses causes sever problems to connect to legitimate network nodes, ultimately causing network fragmentation. I thought of several, but the fastest/simplest and imo most appropriate and even most interesting solution for this (spare time) research coin is the one I carried out.

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SMC mining aborted. I ain't gonna support coin developed by retard who is hard-forking blockchain on will.

I'd somewhat understand that reaction if you attached any monetary value to SMC. I thought I made that point clear, but speaking of retards: SMC is research and its only value is its blockchain, freely available to any participant. If you want to learn how those coins and tools around them work, you can play around with SMC (I already expressed interest in trying out any reasonable modification suggestions) or use your own fork (full source control) or do the real thing with established coins (invest hashing power, but have little/no influence on the coin itself).

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Bye!

Nevertheless, thanks for the hashing power - bye!

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