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Same here,
Client is stuck at block 100626, restarting didn't help.
To give it a try, I freshly installed 0.1.3-28 on another machine, didn't help, once arriving at 100626 it's stuck.
Checking Cryptocoinexplorer.com which is also stuck at 100626.
Checking http://dustcoin.com/mining which also shows 100626.

What's up?

Im also out of sync


EDIT: lol, nvm, now i read the quote

Is it possible this could be the result of an attack?

The other day there was a topic about someone who had >51% of the TRC network hashrate

Or it could be that everyone left after spiking the difficulty...

I guess it could be an attack, OR
simply by this diff ("difficulty" : 66974.93661016,) just no block is found in the last 4 hours and miners abandoned

ya.. PPC and TRC are quite vulnerable to the ASIC's just coming in for a short period and then hitting the road in a a hurry.

IMO that is a HUGE benefit of LTC/NVC in that legit CPU/GPU's have to be used to snag them coins :)

Hmm... so miners are still hopping on and off depending on the difficulty...

Possible I suppose.  But even at this difficulty, 4 hours seems a little excessive for not finding a block. 

First vircurex is down and now this :o

Been looking at the debug logs of the various TRC daemons I have running on different servers.

It seems clients are in disagreement about the highest block. I am seeing the clients giving different heights when they query each other.

I have started a clean chain download, and will see what the debug log reports.

Clean download got to Block 100626.

I have other clients stuck in blocks a little under the 100000 block.



Never mind, I found that had overlooked updating this particular client with the protocol change. The one on my personal computer..go figure.. :D, the daemons on the public facing servers I remembered to update.

So can you tell us what is going on. Is this a 51% attack?

it's just the difficulty is way too high for the few miners remaining :(

Most of the miners jumped off the boat, while diff was the biggest TRC ever had til now...

It's not as a big deal for ppcoin, as ppcoin's adjustment is not super fast you would need a few days to pump the difficulty to that high. Moreover, when proof-of-work blocks becomes sparse there are still proof-of-stake blocks to save the day.

We have seen this before and ppcoin network so far handled those incidents reasonably well.

I do not think so, but going through the debug.log I am seeing clients connecting that fail at block 99996, which are clients in need of updating to the new targeting protocol.

Perhaps enough outdated clients, matched with the crazy jumps in difficulty is causing blocks not to be found.


I am not sure at this point.

Crazy high diff (we had 6% of btc hash power at one point?) combined with people on old clients. It will get sorted out when people realize they need too update and the diff finally gets back to normal.

Good timing with vircurex being down though, at least no one can buy or sell trc right now.

Edit: no it's not 51% that is something different. This is too few people mining combined with the difficulty slowly readjusting. In my opinion it was better when the diff was allowed to widely fluctuate. Then at least it was accurate.

Is that an educated guess or the actual answer?

If the number of people mining drops drastically it causes this? Or...

Yeah coinotron showing only ~30GH mining TRC right now. At the current difficulty that's about 2~3 hours a block.

Unless those 30GH starts pulling out as well just be patient I guess. Next adjustment is supposedly at 100650 I think.

I threw 2 avalons on it for a while. sorry. that quick diff adjust can bite you in the ass huh?

there mined you one more block

1GHXkGhELL7etZ5ooMdndcrczYbLN9N3TZ

H0v3pE/BTW/0Aw/kYLoQxuIAHCwitN+5umOEPeY6StR+YNVUYZd3Kn9FEV3bQNAXz1YGPhkx3NholdrSTfe2OzM=

Lol  :D

How many coins do you make per hour when the difficulty is decent?   :P

ITS ON BTC-E

I may or may not have mined 10's of thousands...

Noob, you killed TRC. Hope you can't sell those coins now ;)

You better have to put one of those back for a little while to fix it?? Maybe?
Also, you can send some of those thousands here: 1LbJq3XdU3cbo3SRgekumighcN5DYWNiDQ  :D

I have got some kind of response on sending some just now, no confirmations yet but they have been seen.

+100.00000000 TRC, 0 confirmations, 03:35 06.04.13

can we get an update on this could some1 look into this
is it forked
is it 51% attack
are there new blocks

There's nothing to look into.  No fork.  No 51% attack.  The difficulty is just too high right now.  It will come back down soon.  No need to worry or panic. 

throw some mayonnaise in the trc's particle accelerator.  it'll cool down the difficulty

Yep. All my coins are stuck at Vircurex anyway. So, whistle and wait I guess! And then when it comes down, roll back this difficulty patch! The fast retargeting of difficulty was what I always said was a plus!

It still retargets every 30 blocks.  It was entirely possible to get into this same situation on the previous version.  The new version isn't entirely to blame.  I seem to recall you making a big deal about 8x profitability at the same time when the difficulty would be low for a while and BTC pools were under DDOS attacks and miners were looking elsewhere.

I would suggest that if people want to trade their terracoins, they should suck it up and point their hardware at the terracoin network.  The profitability on dustcoin is at 110% so people need to start generating some hashes.  The entire network loses when people chain hop.  Big miners actually make fewer coins and less profit per day than if they just continued to mine.  It's partly a social problem and partly a technical one.

The developer should revisit this difficulty issue.  It's not a simple problem.

What would you suggest? I agree it's not a simple problem, but there must be some sort of solution in between. What are your thoughts?

For now? Convince the big miners to stay on the network?  Maybe put up a bounty?  Social solutions involving game theory?

Coinotron and other pools could implement a payout system that rewards longer-term mining.

If people decide to start mining somewhere on the downward difficulty adjustment, there should be much smoother transitions that match the actual network speed and profitability.

I think the next adjustment will be 1/4 of where the difficulty is now.  That should be low enough that people start mining again.

Where can I find what the next Diff change is and when it will occur???

New block found, everything running fine again with TRC.... except they disabled it on BTC-E.

bobbit +1

http://108.imagebam.com/download/Q_Sz2fW38XTS7TCD2jF7YA/24741/247403035/terracoin.png

Great to hear! and 702TRC, nice balance. Very jealous