I just woke up and starting to catch up to everyone, but our coder noticed something odd last night before going to sleep (he's only human like the rest of us). Please keep in mind that mistakes do happen, everybody makes them, but it is how we deal with them that defines who we are to those around us.
He already made a fix apparently before going to bed, but we will have to do more than simply coordinate all pools since there are solominers as well. If this turns out to be true, then I see a few options.
1) Find fix and hard fork it, only human mining and bounties paid until then
- Pros: Coin will work as promised/intended
- Cons: Not sure how long scrypt miners have to wait until fix is finalized
2) Stop remainder of scrypt PoW, make coin purely bounty and human mining (max coin supply will drop to about 51.1 million)
- Pros: GOODs already earned will not be lost
- Cons: scrypt miners will no longer be able to hash for GOODs unless we create a multipool
3) Kill the coin, fork a different coin, and relaunch GOOD
- Pros: Coin will work as promised/intended
- Cons: Last 6 days of hash/work/clicky would be for nothing
4)Coordinating a time when all pools and solo miners can update at the same time
- Pros: Coin will work as promised/intended
- Cons: Forks may occur if not everyone updates at same time
5) Stop remainder of Scrypt PoW and destroy remaining premine, only PoS will generate new GOODs
- Pros: Early adopters will benefit greatly, only 300k-400k in circulation
- Cons: No more bounties to pay out, so likely also no more new features
This will obviously be the priority of the day.
Edit: To those who think we simply copied and paste, that is not true as there are many changes that were made. It's unfortunate this issue came up today, since we were working on a new feature that make our wallet one of the most advanced wallet out there.
The ideal solution would be nr. 1. If developing this solution takes only a couple of days (2-3) I would go for this one otherwise option 4. would be my preferred solution. The only problem with 4. I can think of, that some solo miners may get even more frustrated if some forks will occur. With updated pools, good instructions and a list of up-to date nodes, I think the chances are good that 4. will succeed.
How about a modified version of 2?
Stop the PoW,
Split the pre mine. 25 million to be mined PoW. 25 Million to be mined human.
Set up a schedule of PoW minined, ie: 1 million coins per week.
Set up a multipool.
Miners now point hash at the multipool and are paid out NOT through the market but through 25 million as per the schedule.
Use the BTC/LTC whatever generated by the multipool to hire a developer to make the game part for the human mine.
Do it VERY openly. Post verifiable numbers each week to show where multipool profits go.
When the 25 million mine is over, get onto an exchange and allow the multipool hash to then apply buy pressure on the exchange rate.
Whatchya all think?
G.