ok, so lets do some calcs to back up why I have the hump, and how ridiculous today really has been...
last block found on iSpace is block 45,980, and I don't have my wallet running anymore, so lets assum that is the latest block, so in thoery the next block to be mined should be block 45,981...
next 2016 block = 46,368
46,368 - 45,980 = 388 blocks until difficulty change...
on 2nd july 2016, the last block found was 45,885...
In 4 days 95 blocks have been found, and this should be 288 blocks per day total, so obviously 95 in 4 days isn't that much...
( 60 / 5 = 12 x 24 = 288 blocks per day total )
The problem is that I think today went far to far...I don't have exact figures, but according to the block explorer -
https://www.blockexperts.com/unb - in just 7 hours we went from block 45,931 to block 45,980 - thats 49 blocks - and I know we did that many in the first half of today, so of the last 95 blocks in the last 4 days, at least half of them, if not most of them, were mined today...
What really matters now is the total length of time its taken to mine this set of 2016 blocks, what the average block mine time really works out to be over this total time period, and obviously how long its gonna take for the last 388 blocks to be mined...
Also, 6 days ago, there were 495 blocks left of the 2016 to mine, so that means that 107 blocks have been mined in 6 days, with at least 49 today, so 107 - 49 = 58 / 5 = 11.6 blocks average, which is completely wrong as it was about 3 blocks a day, but either way, today as many blocks were mined minimum as were mined in the last 5 days, if my maths guestimations are correct...
example:-
3 + 2 + 5 = 10
5 + 2 + 3 = 10
7 + 2 + 1 = 10
what we had today would be the equivalent of :-
3 + 2 + 57 which obviously does not equal 10.
If the total time of blocks mined works out to be more than:-
60 / 5 = 12 x 24 = 288 blocks a day
2016 / 288 = 7 days total
...then the difficulty goes down.
if it works out at less, then the difficulty goes up...
The question is, how quickly, on average, were all 2016 blocks really mined...its not 7 days, but is it enough to actually make the average go down...so thus the difficulty go down, to a level that will actually enable the "Average Joe" to be able to make something without massess of hashing power...even through a pool...
These answers, I'm sorry, I do not know...But if anything in the past has been anything like today, I really don't know how low the difficulty will be compared to something sustainable and mathmatically feasible to at least a small ASIC miner, if not a GPU miner...or is it really true that selfish mining spoils it for everyone in the end...and the days of home mining are over...
These days come, these days go, unfortunately, but its the frequency and severity that, overall, will be the deciding factor if UNB really is for the masses, or just a great pump and dump play toy for those with the deepest pockets, the least amount of morrals, and the hashing power to back it up...
Cheers !
EDIT - Obviously the overall point I was also making is that 49 blocks x 50 UNB = 2,450 new UNB generated today, minimum... - How much is not enough, and how much is too much - everything is relational...there are still only 4 full nodes running... lets all run on empty and see how far the network goes...look at the bigger picture...without full nodes, UNB is completely worthless...irony at its best and worst, considering everything today...Im not suggesting, but you could prob do a 51% node attack for like £8 if not less...if you really wanted to...how may UNB do you hold, and how much value do you place in them...
0 / 2 = 0
...seriously, this needs sorting more urgently than any hash rate increase...I'm sure I'm not the only one on the ball...I'm definitely no the only one to be able to sort this...it's ok, we'll all just rely on someone else to do whatever and hopefully it'll be alrite, yeah...good luck with that one...