Topic: [Ultracoin] [Est. Feb 2014] ~ ASIC Resistant & Ultrafast 6 Second Transactions! - page 178. (Read 381060 times)

Things are different than they were before.  There is fluctuation on the difficulty, the block compression is a little more than I'd like on the low end of difficulty swing, but the block spacing is workable, which is one of the biggest goals.   For the most part is has been averaging ~47 seconds a block over the last 20,000 blocks, with Proof of Stake blocks added in, with some gaps longer than 2 minutes.  But as far as the targeting goes, we're fine.  We're in good shape to carry out transactions in a reasonable amount of time.  And we won't be getting stuck on a block as we did with the original targeting algorithm.  If anything the current target favors miners even more because of the faster difficulty adjustment downward.  

At some point I would like to smooth out the block spacing even more by mixing the PoW and PoS difficulties, so that the PoS blocks complement the PoW blocks, and also lengthen the averaging span.  As several have pointed out, the current target is suited for high loading and unloading- it could use some tweaking for our situation.  The ultimate goal would be to able to evenly space the blocks so that they have a better chance to serve the network by containing transactions.   So a hard fork at some point in the future is not out of the question, but it's not even close to urgent enough to put us through through another few weeks of Cryptsy outages.  If and when it comes, it's going to be after a much longer round of testing.  In short, not anytime really soon.

And as for lingering issues, they appear to be mostly in king_pin's mind and rantings.  Disregard them- I do.  Changes will be coming soon, but they are not going to be in the form of hard forks.  It's going to be minor updates, fixes and changes that will be compatible with the current targeting.  Things like adding light mode and a bootstrap option to the Android wallet.  If anything, I only see upside from here.

12? where aiming at 30 in a short time !

Nice one! Kracko

Excellent work kracko, we really appreciate it.

Can you give us a status on the the fork/blockchain/mining situation in regards to what happened and what has been resolved so far? Is everything back up and running 100% ? Is there another fork in the future that will resolve any lingering issues?

I just doubled down again, hoping it goes back to 12 again soon

@king_pin Perhaps you should take up developing.   I'm sure it'll come easy as you seem to know everything.

Hi,

My UTC wallet crashed on my main workstation about a weak ago when staking and refused to work after that, so I wiped the blockchain downloaded latest wallet (v0.7.3.3-g15-g0bcf258-beta) and had it sync, worked fine until it got stuck on block 795290. Wiped bc again, same happened.

So I downloaded the UTC wallet to a machine (win7, 64 bit) that never had UTC on it, same happened again, stuck on 795290 for six hours (100mbit connection), still 50+ peers connected.

Can I download the blockchain from somewhere to get around this or does anyone have a solution?

Thanks

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prices are still going down mean? 

I heard there is asic for UTC jumping on/off .... 

Finally even I can confirm that Cryptsy is back online
I received all my deposits, old and new.

Now all that is lef to do is FORK the fu**en wallet again!!! 

@Kracko, you have not fixed shit regarding difficulty retarget. Difficulty is stil jumping up and down.
Please don't give me your Mysterious miners coming and going excuse again! There are only a few solo miners, most 90% of the blocks come from the pool, and I see no miners coming and going, so please I beg you stop with the funny excuses, and find a way to fix things!

Thanks DCGirl - its appreciated that you/Cryptsy keep the UTC community informed directly over issues such as this and their resolution. Its to Cryptsy's
credit that they have dedicated staff such as yourself working at the coalface with users.

I seemed to have no issues at all with UTC withdrawals and deposits - but some obviously did and its encouraging to know that all is resolved.

Cheers - usukan

Cryptsy is back up, deposits and withdrawals are working although there is a still a backlog being processed from when they were down.

update, all systems are back up

Hello Tukho,

Why the smiles?

Cryptsy back online at the moment but still in maintenance by the way

500 - Internal Server Error,   

Lift off cancelled.. 503- Service not available / 500 Internal server error

Ladies and gentlemen we have liftoff! 

Good to know. tnx

Thanks!

the Cryptsy team is working on a backend db issue that's affecting deposits and withdrawals. not sure of the eta for resolution. This is affecting multiple coins. I'll post here when they're back up.

Transfers from wallet to Cryptsy are still not perfect. 147 out of 6 confirmation and it's still on pending list, instead of added to the balance.

Cryptsy works. I transferred coins to a purse and made some transactions. Everything is all right