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Depends on what "long periods of time" are. Check http://nlgstats.iblogger.org/ and see that recently the gap time has been 68 minutes as longest. That is less that before that (where long was multiple hours), if it doesn't become worse than those 68 minutes, I'm more than happy with it.

24Kilo quote: "In fact, expect network difficulty to hit new record highs and be 'stuck' for long periods of time."
That really does not sound good.

I welcome the change but as for expectations: Once the price goes over 1000 you can expect Clevermining to have over 50% of the hash again BUT as long as they on a more even playing field then they currently are now. I doubt anyone minds that they mining Guldencoin the problem is they not playing fair and have caused dedicated miners to move elsewhere.
Once things are more fair I think we will see more dedicated miners come back and stay for the longterm.

The above should be the most important requirement about the change and not whether clevermining still mines Guldencoin, in fact we need clevermining to sell coins as cheap as possible for more people to get in at good prices and also contribute to this AMAZING community.

It's a real pity the simulator is not ready but I can see why you advised to decrease the block times to 75 seconds as it would reduce the long block times by 100%.

Clever taking >50% and long block times.... or Clever only causing long block times. I would prefer the latter.

Nice one Bram!

Digishield is not going to be a magic bullet against Clevermining. In fact, expect network difficulty to hit new record highs and be 'stuck' for long periods of time.

If Clevermining hits the NLG network with 10x or 20x hash-rate of the base nethash, the difficulty will hit 10x or 20x in a blink. Digishield deals very aggressively with hash-rate spikes, and when Clevermining exits, taking the hash-rate with them, the network is going to be 'stuck' at a very high difficulty.

This Digishield doing its job, reacting quick enough to make it unprofitable to attack the network with high hash-rate.

No one knows how Clevermining or its profitability algo will react to this change. Terk may continue to test the network looking for a way to get coins at a discount. Depends on the tenacity of the Clevermining team as to how many cycles the network has to go through till Clevermining discovers how to best handle the changed diff algo. Do not expect Clevermining to go quietly, NLG has been their cash cow for many months.

I am expecting new record highs of difficulty and some long, grinding sessions before the network achieves equilibrium. What I don't expect to see is false difficulty lows and Clevermining minting the majority of the blocks in a 24hr period by attacking. If Terk decides to park 20x hash-rate on the NLG network for a few days or weeks, Clevermining will own the NLG network by brute force, but not at a discount as they have been.

The NLG dev team and community need to have realistic expectations of the upcoming difficulty algo change and the above is what I expect to happen.

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Congratulations great decision !
Go Guldencoin.

Best christmas present ever!!

Good news! Im sure Digishield will do the job and if you have any questions the Digibyte team/community is willing to help you with the hardfork.

And counting....

Hey Fuse I remember Vesperwillow from tagcoin, also a great person to have in the Criptoe team. It's really good to see what awesome folks Guldencoin has behind it!

I can move hashes around, but my point was to do this before DIGI kicks in.

Ok, that makes it clear. 

We did not test the shorter block time.  All testing was done with our current values.  The numbers Kilo has stated are mathematical inferences that can be derived from the proposed changes.  See my reply to /GJ about these numbers for clarification.

The change in block time is not a priority, nor is it a necessity.  It was an additional suggestion that would be beneficial in the long run, and something we can discuss at a later date.  It's a suggestion I fully stand behind though.  The Criptoe team will most likely test this in the future as well, and we'll provide data if it's requested by the dev team.



This is a concern for sure, but there are at least 3 other active NLG pools, including the coiniumserv pool that was announced recently.  Understand this though... I don't have an interest in running away with the network.  Unlike CM, we don't need to worry if my pool breaks 50%... we just need to readjust and spread the hashes.

Recently, 24Kilo has expressed interest running pools.  Another member of our team, Vesperwillow, has run pools for testing and private mining.  I'll see if I can help either one of them get a pool up and running to give the community additional options.

-Fuse

Thumbs up for DigiShield!    

For clearance about the change with Digishield:

So testing has been done with Digishield with 150 sec. blocktime and 1000 blockreward, am I right, Fuse?
Or has 75 sec. blocktime with 500 blockreward been tested as well, as 24Kilo suggested to do with Digishield? That would even be better or am I wrong in this? Which one will it be, is that clear yet?

Hahaha
Laughed even louder hahaha!

Maybe we can block their ip address!