New difficulty

[bobbix]

Ummm, it went down to 5.

That was unexpected, I figured somewhere around 2. What happened?

[Dayne]

I'm not sure the exact reason, perhaps it's due to the network hashrate? Maybe somebody decided to point a hundred megahash at the GLD chain right before block 21,000?

[RichG]

Ummm, it went down to 5.

That was unexpected, I figured somewhere around 2. What happened?

The network hashrate is about 14 MH/S:

Output from client:


18:37:18

getnetworkhashps

14113878

[hyoshi]

5 is about right.  It will change again at block 21,504

[AZIZ1977]

5 is about right.  It will change again at block 21,504

ok

[Marink]

5 is about right.  It will change again at block 21,504

I don't think it's right but that might be just me..
Look at an example, we have a difficulty of 5.xxx with hashrate ~15 MH/s, BBQ coin has difficulty 0.9xxx with hashrate ~73 MH/s.

[bobbix]

5 is about right.  It will change again at block 21,504

I don't think it's right but that might be just me..
Look at an example, we have a difficulty of 5.xxx with hashrate ~15 MH/s, BBQ coin has difficulty 0.9xxx with hashrate ~73 MH/s.

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[Marink]

What' the block target 2mins?
We can't even hit that so the difficulty is not right, at all.

[Stouse49]

What' the block target 2mins?
We can't even hit that so the difficulty is not right, at all.

If the difficulty can drop dramatically, it can also rise in the same fashion after an attack.  We will have to be patient for the next difficulty change in X04 blocks.

[Marink]

With this hashrate difficulty should be 0.xxx 

[hyoshi]

I have to look but its that's around 2 1/2 blocks per hour - 62 were mined in the last 24 hours since the drop to 5 and some mining power is gone.

If mining power stay the same, at block 21504, it will drop again, and then you should see more blocks per hour.

[bobbix]

I don't think the question is "will the diff drop more". I think its rather more of an issue of this coin getting attacked when the diff is low for a period of time, forcing the diff back up high again and then the big rig power that made it go up doesn't stick around when its high and leaves us right back in this same situation again.

I think that is our main concern/issue that needs to be addressed.

Another words, I think the diff re-target needs to be set in TIME(hours/days) rather than AMOUNT OF BLOCKS.

[bitshirehashaway]

I think the coin had a slower difficulty drop. The reason for that could be because it would be more intense if the coin went from 7 to .7 or something. Maybe there is a limit to how much it can change. Anyway, we'll find out more at block 21,504... A few more days... I just need coinchoose to update.

[Marink]

I think the coin had a slower difficulty drop. The reason for that could be because it would be more intense if the coin went from 7 to .7 or something. Maybe there is a limit to how much it can change. Anyway, we'll find out more at block 21,504... A few more days... I just need coinchoose to update.

Might be even better, if you had a drop from 7 to 0.7 you would get a lot of hoppers on the coin. This way if the diff adjusts let's say max per 2, you get more miners over time till we adjust at around ~1.

[AZIZ1977]

did difficulty drop to 3.67052813?