i havne't been following up on pasl .... why there is a hardfork
Added: Socks5 support - Now you can use PascalLite through TOR network
Changed: difficulty
Changed: UI minor changes
Refactoring: useless code dropped
Refactoring: warnings
Fixed: networking, connections statistic
- The hardfork was implemented to change the difficulty settings. The difficulty was refactoring based on the past 100 blocks. Now it refactors based on the past 10. This is to prevent some of the exploiting that has been being done by renting hash when the difficulty is going down. The hashrate would increase by .5 to 1 gigahash on the network.... but the difficulty would keep going down. The person renting the hash would hit a bunch of quick blocks. But the network would take a long time to react to that. The person could start hitting really quick blocks and the network would keep lowering the difficulty because it was looking at the past 100 blocks.
When the network would recover the difficulty would go up way too high. The person(s) renting hash would stop renting hash. Then the network might take 8-12 hours to recover. During that time instead of blocks being found every 5 minutes they might be found 2-3 times an hour. It was screwing up the network for everyone.
Now the system reacts much faster so if someone rents a lot of hash they can't exploit the network as much... and it doesn't hurt the rest of the miners that aren't trying to exploit it.
Win win solution. Well done devs.