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      chrisj Regular Member last edited by

      [quote name=“Bushstar” post=“7825” timestamp=“1369838730”]
      What we need is more difficulty adjusts under our belt. There are 75 blocks to go till the next retarget. We got mined up to a very high difficulty by the initial miners and have opted to go for a slow recovery to avoid being mined into that position again. Once we get back on target the miners would not be able to push us to such a high difficulty again before becoming unprofitable again as the adjusts are smaller.

      The next difficulty adjust will see the block become 41.4% easier to mine so miners will get that many more coins and the network will go that much faster. With these two we will be able to attract additional miners.
      [/quote]

      I want to start offering FTC for multi currencies, have started asking for favours from my network. However when I realised that the confirmations were 3 days I realised I needed to look at this problem. Are there any measurables you can tell me? What hashrate over all? How many miners at what hash rate do we need?

      Thanks

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        drummerjdb666 last edited by

        You guys know how long the retarget might take?

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          deroekeloze last edited by

          [quote name=“drummerjdb666” post=“7844” timestamp=“1369842990”]
          You guys know how long the retarget might take?
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          http://stats.feathercoin.com/

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            drummerjdb666 last edited by

            oh yea hey that was an easy answer! HAHA!

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              FoBoT last edited by

              i would like to postulate that we are actually better getting to the next target [i]without[/i] temporary help
              i may be wrong, but now that we are doing retargets each 504 blocks, if we can establish a base line of more permanent miners (vs those attracted by one time bounties) then the retarget logic that bushstar put in place will be able , over a few cycles, to get things back on track where we are making clear progress without the need for temporary miners/bounties

              at that point we’ll be able to attract new long term miners , again vs the fly by night coin hoppers that can actually cause problems with quick hash rate changes

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                spynappels last edited by

                [quote name=“FoBoT” post=“7873” timestamp=“1369849566”]
                i would like to postulate that we are actually better getting to the next target [i]without[/i] temporary help
                i may be wrong, but now that we are doing retargets each 504 blocks, if we can establish a base line of more permanent miners (vs those attracted by one time bounties) then the retarget logic that bushstar put in place will be able , over a few cycles, to get things back on track where we are making clear progress without the need for temporary miners/bounties

                at that point we’ll be able to attract new long term miners , again vs the fly by night coin hoppers that can actually cause problems with quick hash rate changes
                [/quote]

                I agree, while the bounties helped us get to block 33,000 and this was a good thing, we don’t want to become dependent on them, a slower but natural progression is better if you ask me. We’ll get there, only 71 blocks to go.

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                  PhantomSTi last edited by

                  You guys have had my axe (rig) for 2 weeks now. I’ll keep it mining at FCPool.com. :)

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                    drummerjdb666 last edited by

                    You should j[quote name=“PhantomSTi” post=“8014” timestamp=“1369891216”]
                    You guys have had my axe (rig) for 2 weeks now. I’ll keep it mining at FCPool.com. :)
                    [/quote]

                    You should check out the new layout and jump on ftc.d2.cc

                    If your a heavy hasher we could use another! almost half the speed of vern’s pool right now :/

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                      drummerjdb666 last edited by

                      [size=18pt][shadow=red,left][glow=red,2,300]DO IT!!![/glow][/shadow][/size]

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                        Red Mist last edited by

                        52 blocks left. Maybe a small push will bring it within 2 days.

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                          Bushstar last edited by

                          [quote name=“d2” post=“8114” timestamp=“1369926910”]
                          [quote author=Red Mist link=topic=1001.msg8104#msg8104 date=1369925549]
                          52 blocks left. Maybe a small push will bring it within 2 days.
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                          It depends entirely on how many block average is used for the adjustment. I don’t recall reading or know if it was posted but seeing as they have current network hashrate on the stats page showing previous 60 blocks, I would tend to err on the side of caution.

                          If the 60 block average is used to calculate retarget, then the last 52 getting a significant boost could destroy our 41.4% difficulty drop but perhaps they are using previous 504 block average. If anyone knows which, I’d be interested to know.
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                          It is only the stats page that uses the 60 block average. Retarget is calculated from the previous 504 blocks.

                          Donate: 6hf9DF8H67ZEoW9KmPJez6BHh4XPNQSCZz

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                            PhantomSTi last edited by

                            [quote name=“drummerjdb666” post=“8019” timestamp=“1369892391”]
                            You should j[quote author=PhantomSTi link=topic=1001.msg8014#msg8014 date=1369891216]
                            You guys have had my axe (rig) for 2 weeks now. I’ll keep it mining at FCPool.com. :)
                            [/quote]

                            You should check out the new layout and jump on ftc.d2.cc

                            If your a heavy hasher we could use another! almost half the speed of vern’s pool right now :/
                            [/quote]

                            I’m not really a heavy hasher. Just have 1 7950 doing around 500-550 KH/s all day. I’ll check that pool out though. :)

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                              drummerjdb666 last edited by

                              [quote name=“PhantomSTi” post=“8163” timestamp=“1369938828”]
                              [quote author=drummerjdb666 link=topic=1001.msg8019#msg8019 date=1369892391]
                              You should j[quote author=PhantomSTi link=topic=1001.msg8014#msg8014 date=1369891216]
                              You guys have had my axe (rig) for 2 weeks now. I’ll keep it mining at FCPool.com. :)
                              [/quote]

                              Still much faster than my 135kh/s gtx 660!!! :p

                              You should check out the new layout and jump on ftc.d2.cc

                              If your a heavy hasher we could use another! almost half the speed of vern’s pool right now :/
                              [/quote]

                              I’m not really a heavy hasher. Just have 1 7950 doing around 500-550 KH/s all day. I’ll check that pool out though. :)
                              [/quote]

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