It's really good to see more and more places to spend Guldencoin @.
@devs, how is the progress going on the difficulty adjustment?
There was a live feed done on Friday by /GeertJohan but since then the topic has just died off again. I am sure work is being done on it so we don't have to worry.
All I can say, sometimes when it gets quiet, it doesn't always mean nothing is happening. In this case it's the lack of time to create noise, but..... Noise there will be...
You are right: While GeertJohan is concentrating on a new diff algo for NLG which is a big task and takes time, I was digging into the code we use now for a better understanding how it reacts and how it could be modified as a quick solution with low risk until the new algo is ready to go live.
Analysing the DGW3 code I found 2 smaller mistakes leading to a max factor of ~3.13 instead of 3.0 (not a big deal) but the set of 50 blocks thsminer posted earlier smelled like I needed more data. Ask and you will be given
thsminer was sending me data of 2000! blocks a few days ago.
On the first view it looked like it was basically in line with what I was expecting based on the code.
Running some calculations on this big pile of records to compare the diff of the block against what I was expecting from the DGW3 code was the easiest part of the work. Reading through all those lines of numbers took a lot of time and coffee, but finally I found a row of blocks where the diff changes still seems far too late and far slower than they should be; right now I am trying to understand why and how this happened. Understanding those problems seems necessary to me to prevent them showing up again in the future.
