Back to all these merged coins being related...
Two less well known members of the merge family, coiledcoin and geistgeld, do not seem to currently be supported by any well known public merged mining pools thus have quite low difficulties, and monitoring them can be helpful maybe to the whole merged family because they might be able to show us potential problems before those problems start hitting the more-popular members of the family.
GeistGeld is the super-fast-blocks one, like crazy-fast blocks, so fast that just looking up an auxblock to give work to a miner can take long enough that no matter how many gigahashes the miner has it won't be able to increase the difficulty. The main original purpose of GeistGeld was to find out the practical limit on how fast blocks can be and still allow merging of many blockchains. It might be good to adjust its speed in fact, to try somewhat slower, since it seems clear that its current speed is too fast for any pools to consider supporting the coin. The pool ends up spending so much resources on trying to keep up with GeistGeld that it does not process other chains as fast as it otherwise could; mmpool once reported that the actual value mined was less in total when GeistGeld was in their merge, because other coins such as bitcoin suffered enough lag to earn less overall than if resources were not being spent trying to merge GeistGeld.
Coiledcoin is slower blocks, but have you noticed that it is using lots of RAM? I thought the RAM problem had been fixed across all the merged coins, including Coiledcoin?
Maybe some of you could take a look, see if it seems to you too to use lots of RAM?
It seems to use more than GeistGeld, yet GeistGeld has of course way the heck more blocks to process so shouldn't Coiledcoin be using less RAM than GeistGeld if both have the same RAM-usage fixes in place?
-MarkM-
Truly this conversation is getting interesting. I actually am not really familiar with any of the merge mined coins except ix. To hear of how fast GeistGeld is makes me very interested in it. Reminds me of the "flash"
So of the
brotherhood of merged-mined sha256 bitcoin cloneswe have ix and i0 the copies of bitcoin with fast minting rates,
ix being the bitcoin clone that has proven life after terminal mining,
i0 the bitcoin copy that is finally getting some new tech.
Gesitgeld, bitcoin with superfast blocks
Coiledcoin (besides what mark just said) my quick research led me to this post,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.675166IS it dead JIM?
And
Devcoin and groupcoin. I'm still researching these, but maybe this quote sheds some light.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.827744According to the readme file
Groupcoin is the precursor to devcoin, in which we tested
some ideas to fall back on in case we could not do what
we wanted devcoin to do.
Devcoin was described at
https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity/wiki/Devcoin-Descriptionbut the description has apparently since been moved to
http://www.devtome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Devcoin