price raise to 6 litoshi!
It's going to go higher than that, once I release the new wallets. I think I've nearly got my setup right to do Mac builds as well. I'd like to be able to release the entire set of wallets at the same time.
Just letting you guys know the project is just now barely getting started so it will be a few days until its ready, and I'll leave a safe amount of time after release for the actual deadline to upgrade so everyone has a chance. It will be a hardfork so it's very important that you guys are upgraded when the hardfork block hits. I was thinking of possibly going with DGW but I think even KGW would be fine with sane settings. Problem is, though, we've never seen a diff of more than 1, so I don't really think our current diff adjusts well at all. I can't remember the numbers off the top of my head either, but I think we're coming up on another halving before too awful long, all the big fat blocks have mostly been pissed away by some of us (me), I'm going to crunch some numbers but it doesn't take much thinking to know that we've been chewing blocks up MUCH faster than intended. The pool is reporting 56 sec avg block time, but I was watching the shares, we got 8 blocks in 1 minute earlier.
I need everyone's input, and quickly because I'm about to be in the middle of the project, but if we don't either raise the max coin amount, or slow down the block generation(preferable), we're going to run out, and I don't think Bird has a perpetual low payout end of life block reward.. Don't quote me I'll have to double check.. But I don't want to go making big changes without the input of the community.
The hashrates have jumped big time today, and as a result, my pool rolled over and died, several times. Getting 8 blocks in 1 minute with thousands and thousands of out-of-order low diff shares does that. I've switched the backend Stratum over to NOMP (node-open-mining-pool), their stratum implementation is 10000 times better than the old python-stratum-mining (sorry ahmed!), and the blocknotify script is actually a C binary so it's a damn sight faster, no signs of problems since I fired it all up. Vardiff is running on 3333 as usual, but check the news, we have other fixed-diff ports open for use, in case you have grouchy miners. That's the thing I really love about NOMP, very customizable to meet everyone's usage situation. Please let me know if your hashrates are off, I've gotten vardiff dialed in as best as I can with my mining rig but can always use other input. As always I'm just an email away, so contact me if you need anything! Please, though, give me input quick on what should be done about the coin generation.. I'd be hesitant to just "make moar coins", I'd rather slow down the blockchain, as I think that would add more value in the long run anyway. We can still toss around the PoS topic later on too, its do-able and never too late. Might be something to think about if the coins are determined to run out sooner rather than later! Please, PM me if you have input on that because its hectic around here, I have 1000 tabs open and tons of consoles, so yeah..
See you guys later!
PS. I thought I had sent this.. new replies while I was typing....
Anyway, we just had ANOTHER cron shutdown and stuck payment because of the max blocksize shrinking. I (HOPE) I have a quick and dirty hack to stop it while we wait out the new wallet, I will (DO MY BEST) to get it in first thing tomorrow. If you get a missing payment, don't panic. Just message me and let me know the amount, if I don't respond right away I'm in bed and I'll take care of it as soon as I'm up. I check the pools before I even light my first cigarette of the day, lol. Its easy to spot because you won't have a TXID. The max blocksize is getting progressively smaller. sucks.
