So yesterday I rented 100 MH/s to try and actually get through and mine some coins. I also had three full nodes up and running. The three nodes are whitelisted to accept and rebroadcast any and all transactions to and from each other.
Two nodes were in sync with the original block explorer
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/octo/ and the only known public pool
http://octocoin.securepayment.cc/. The third node was 23 blocks ahead. In console on all three I did getpeerinfo and getinfo and confirmed that the two that were in sync had full block data available up to there respective block(sorry i didnt write it down
). The third node that was 23 blocks ahead but only had block headers for those 23 blocks.
The third node would not broadcast the additional blocks it had it was just stuck the difficulty on it was ~21. I something was wrong with it so I took it offline.
My third node was the only thing bridging the gap between the other miner (8NZm7kxY3fDCzDnZKTnZx9nCmeQiCtp986) the block explorer and my two nodes from forking. Whoever else is mining isn't broadcasting their solved blocks to the original pool or original block explorer as they are found. They are only transmitting block headers to my third node.
The info in the two block explorers are different i think i realized the problem around block 549271.
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/octo/ https://prohashing.com/explorer/Octocoin/Nearly all the blocks i mined yesterday were orphaned. Kinda wierd though on octocoin.securepayment.cc we mind upto block #549460 passed the other miner and his chain is right now at 549315 and is the chain taking the lead. I don't know if this is on purpose or just some weird network behavior. Honestly its really frustrating but im good i mined all last year i've gone a ton of octo in other wallets.
Whoever you are please add all these nodes to your config file and double check that full block data is being transmitted upon mining. I'm sure some are yours but some aren't.
addnode=octocoin.securepayment.cc
addnode=octocoin.duckdns.org
addnode=188.165.3.6
addnode=148.251.90.34
addnode=192.99.241.164
addnode=192.99.62.23
addnode=198.27.81.25
addnode=45.32.161.111
addnode=46.44.43.186
addnode=5.135.108.204
addnode=65.95.150.203
addnode=67.244.78.203
addnode=70.76.166.31
addnode=73.130.76.103
addnode=84.119.43.58
addnode=85.85.237.208
addnode=98.115.147.74