Just to inform the community, this is a reliable node iP to load updated blockchain on your BTE Bytecoin client:
72.230.168.189
just add this line in you your bytecoin.conf file (located at %appdata%\Bytecoin\ )
addnode=72.230.168.189
save the bytecoin.conf file and reload the BTE client; and you will see the client to load (otherwise, will not work at all).
An interesting development. Does the "updated blockchain" have anything to do with the proposal by ahmed_bodi and his confederates to fork the blockchain and add Bytecoin as a merged-mined coin to bitparking.com?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bytecoin-poll-plz-sticky-292381Recent increases on the BTE blockchain suggest that someone may have pointed an ASIC at the coin again:
1) Until 9-14 block production had been averaging around 3-4 blocks a day. The difficulty had been pegged at 35k for months since a similar attack started on 5-6.
2) Starting with block 18839 on 9-14, block production started rising eventually reaching several hundred blocks a day.
3) Starting at block 20160 on 9-29, difficulty sudden dropped to 8.9k and block production continued apace.
4) Today at block 22176, difficulity suddenly went back to 35k.
I suspect some kind of manipulation with the blockchain, but can't verify. Anyone have an idea what's going on? Above data can be verified at:
bte.cryptocoinexplorer.comPS: After the flurry of recent traffic started, I've had no trouble keeping 8 connections in my client with no "addnodes" in the conf file.