Guy's, I'm finally sitting down at a London airport and read up what happened the past two weeks. I have been extremely busy with a "brick and stone" job lately, not really able to give my attention to NLG in a way I would like to. Fortunately I have some peace and quiet time coming up, so I can get back to it!
One thing, besides the big project, I'm am eager to address is the trouble with CleverMining. There must be a way to address this politically, and I really want to try that path. Are there any previous contact moments with Terk you guys might have had that can help me in building a case to discuss with him? Maybe PM's are best for that ATM...
Cheers,
LTEX
My first PM convo with Terk:
Terk,
Greetings, mate. I wanted to drop you a line as a simple request from one pool op/miner to another. Members of the Guldencoin community are starting to get a little upset with the effects that CleverMining has on the Guldencoin network. When CleverMining hops on NLG, we see difficulty swings and periods of no blocks found. The developers are planning to make changes that will essentially make it less favorable for CleverMining, and other multipools, to keep mining NLG. I figured in the meantime I would just ask, respected community member to respected community member, pool op to pool op, miner to miner- will you remove NLG from CleverMining to ease the burden it places on the NLG network?
If you'd like to respond here in PM, I can pass the info on to the NLG community. However, it might be beneficial if you extended the olive branch to the community, and you responded in the ANN thread. Just a thought.
Thanks,
Fuse
Hi, one of your developers already contacted me. Your difficulty adjustment algorithm is clearly broken. I think you should switch to DigiShield ASAP.
CleverMining developed our own algorithm of limiting hashrate pointed at coins depending on their difficulty. We put only limited amount of hashrate to don't hurt the coin and don't inflate difficulty too much. It works great with all DigiShield coins and it works quite well with most KGW coins. NLG is the exception. I don't know why. Either your KGW implementation is bugged or maybe KGW doesn't work well with such long block gaps (most coins have 60 seconds these days).
I wouldn't like to abandon NLG completely as I have responsibilities to my users and I promised them to maximize their profit and mine the most profitable coins. But I also have no intention to hurt coins, especially ones which developers want to adapt and improve. I want to find some middle ground.What I did is I limited maximum amount of hashrate pointed to NLG to 4x less than at other coins at the same difficulty. This limits us to use only a small fraction of our hashrate to mine NLG. It will still cause difficulty jumps, but they should be more manageable. Do you think this will work for you?
In the meantime you should implement a better difficulty readjustments algorithm as soon as possible.
His recommendation... implement DIGI. This is the algo Criptoe is currently testing.
However, what get's me is the part that is in bold. He states he has obligations to his miners, but he's not currently making them any money by putting coins into a holding wallet. He says he has no intentions of hurting coins, but we've had 3 months of constant sell pressure with 50%+ of the daily coins being raped and sold.
If someone else can convince him that he's hurting the coin, please do so. I took a shot at it, and it went nowhere. That's why I'm so against Terk and Clever now. It's pretty obvious he just doesn't care what he does to this coin.
-Fuse
