i love to talk in pictures
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u can see diamond network as a herd of sheep's with a few shepherd dogs and a shepherd
shepherd is the foundation
shepherd dogs is the network stabilization tool like permanent nodes seed nodes checkpoint wallet filter and so on
from time to times wolves try their luck and create confusion
but soon repelled by shepherd dogs
but some sheep's special if they don't stay close with the shepherd and the shepherd dogs can become victim to the wolves
long story short:
stay with our suggested conf setting and wallet upgradessome people might suggest:
leave the sheep's on their own they will follow their instincts (base wallet code) and live and prosper
try that with real sheep's and tell me how many left after a year or two
Your description sounds more like a centralized fiat system than a decentralized cryptocurrency. In the United States, your shepherd relates to The Fed, and your shephard's dogs are the Secret Service. And that's not working that well, thus we are all interested in cryptocurrencies.
A new version of diamond needs to be released asap that fixes this genesisblock bug that Danbi and Polanskiman are citing. When a bug causes a blockchain fork, the bug that causes it must be addressed and fixed otherwise it might be hard to get Cryptsy and other exchanges to trust that it won't happen again.
The bitcoin block fork of a year ago. It was caused by a bug and fixed with a patch:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a51xx/now_that_its_over_the_blockchain_fork_explained/Having everyone connect to one host to get the correct block chain is a temporary measure and it will only work if the all miners on that chain hash faster than the other. This may or may not happen, and the latest news according to pallas and Atomicca regarding the falling difficulty level might indicate that danbi's chain is failing.
We need a fix for the bug asap. The longer this goes on the more money is lost.
If you do not want to contradict yourself, you will admit that this is not centralized, publicly developed crypto currency. As such, if you know what the solution is, please either speak up, or if you have the expertise, contribute code to fix it.
Yes, this is a very temporary and very inconvenient measure, mostly for the permanent node operator!
By the way, we already implemented a fix related to the bitcoin bug you described.