For the record, I would be in favor of permanently addressing the difficulty issues, but speeding up the rate of destructive oscillations during which miner-dumpers can come and grab cheap coins is just copying an unsuccessful or semi-successful formula of other altcoins. I believe we can (and should) do better than that. So I do not support this particular rushed fork as a permanent solution. I would support this as an interim stopgap step until a true long-term solution is implemented (which may require more coding and testing time). In any case, I respect the original developer's wishes and I would defer to the original developer's judgment as being the correct one that should be implemented for this coin (even if that wish is to follow an unwise consensus). Maybe Catcoin is destined to end up as another altcoin with micro ups and downs in difficulty, with mercenary miners popping in on a regular basis every few hours, to easy-mine and dump coins onto the exchanges suppressing its value. Maybe a true fix to the difficulty oscillation problem will not be implemented in this coin. That would be unfortunate, but would still be correct because I believe a coin developer should decide the fate of his creation. It is up to anyone who has read my proposed permanent solution (a few posts back, at #5511) to post if they agree that the solution I have described is what they believe will promote the long-term success of Catcoins, and if enough people agree, this may be persuasive to the developer(s) who are responsible for implementing change(s) to the coin source code. That would make me very happy. By my statements, I do not mean any disrespect for each and every participant in the Catcoin community, and I submit my ideas humbly, in the hopes it will add value to everyone here.
I have about 4000 Catcoins, if quantity matters for the vote or consensus.
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