I would like to draw everyone's attention to a problem going on with LUXCoin wallet on Cryptopia. The chain is currently almost 13 hrs behind, deposits are delayed accordingly. This situation has been going on for a few weeks already. Fist, the wallet was in maintenance for almost a week, now the wallet is lagging. What is the problem with this? Cryptopia is the top volume exchange for LUX, why can't Cryptopia people afford to buy a decent SSD drive to sync the chain properly? Why is it even a problem? Current block height on Cryptopia is 446239, whereas actual current block is 446808.
Most of the time the cause of the lagging is due to people ignoring the warning "do not mine directly to your exchange address". It cause a large amount of dust to be generated and slows down transactions for everyone else. Then they have to put it into maintenance and dust the wallet. Which then takes a long time because of the large amount of dust.
The other reason is that Cryptopia is a busy exchange. Due to a lot of low value coins it does not have a large value of turnover but a huge amount of transaction turnover. While some large traders might transfer a single large amount to an exchange - Cryptopia has a lot of lower value traders. This shows disproportionately in the statistics. While they rank lower in the value of turnover - they rank quite high in the site ranking based on page views. Their wallets get a large volume of use.
Some wallets also don't work particularly well on an enterprise scale. Your typical private wallet contains a dozen private keys. An exchange wallet contain tens / hundreds of thousands of private keys. Wallet code is developed by the coin developers. Not Cryptopia.
https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-dust-tell-get-rid/
