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Title: Did "Testnet" Just Encounter A Maximum Difficulty Increase? Post by: gigabytecoin on June 28, 2011, 01:21:58 AM Apparantly pushpool requires a minimum difficulty of 256 to work 100% properly (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10321.msg289116#msg289116), so I attempted to increase the difficulty (from ~45) to 256 or higher so that I could fully test pushpool on testnet before making any errors on the real blockchain.
I should have known this would not be possible since the bitcoin protocol has some sort of difficulty increase limiting factor built into it by default, does it not? I am curious... did testnet just hit (or almost hit) that difficulty increase limit? It's surprisingly close to a 4x increase right now (sitting at ~175 difficulty). If anybody wants to join me in upping the testnet difficulty over the next few days, feel free! Title: Re: Did "Testnet" Just Encounter A Maximum Difficulty Increase? Post by: Sukrim on June 28, 2011, 06:15:26 PM You might maybe be able to test it on namecoin if it's urgent...
Namecoin had a 4x increase already by the way with even more hashing power online than that, so yes, this part really works. |