It should continue syncing on it's own even if it's seems to have stalled. If you are concerned however, you may simply restart the wallet and it will continue syncing normally again.



EDIT:


Still a long road ahead of us but it's a bright one I believe.

@Everyone

Don't forget! Today is the Espers Anniversary party over @ thecryptochat.net
Giveaways and such will start in a couple hours plus more fun stuff. Or just come hangout

Posted one more time for good measure

We have a promo running for helping us try to get through to Yobit and have them actually upgrade their wallet.
We'll see what happens.





Means nothing





Lol what? Despite your belief nothing is actually broken. There are updates coming, we've always done so with any sort of hiccup that the chain experiences. Far cry from "omfg it's a failure adhnfljghbnlfhndfh"
Be reasonable lol.

We've even talked about the PoS weight biased... you should check more into this sort of thing first.





@Everyone

Don't forget! Today is the Espers Anniversary party over @ thecryptochat.net
Giveaways and such will start in a couple hours plus more fun stuff. Or just come hangout

Hello guys
Wrote something up to explain the new difficulty retarget system that was implemented on INSANE







Terminal Velocity RateX [VRX]- Altcoin Difficulty Retarget System

Index
1. Introduction
2. Technical Aspects
3. Future Intentions
4. Conclusion

1. Introduction
VRX or Terminal Velocity RateX is an altcoin difficulty retarget system that, utilizing a several block depth scan, quickly adapts the implemented blockchain/altcoin's mining or minting difficulty levels to ensure a narrow window around the desired block time. This of course allowing for some inconsistencies in block spacing time due to significant increases or decreases in hashrate or staking depending on whether the blockchain is Proof-Of-Work based or Proof-Of-Stake.

2. Technical Aspects
Simply put VRX indexes a previous set amount of blocks (typical reference implementations are set to the previous six blocks) and then compares each of them against each other in relation to block their times thus determining a set spacing between those blocks. The system then takes the determined block spacing and compares it against desired block spacing in what is called "Check Round" similar to the other retarget systems available but adjusts on a different curve which adapts quickly to large changes in the hashrate of the blockchain however also making sure to not adjust too much so as not to "stall" the blockchain. There is one Check Round per pair of blocks indexed so in most cases as stated previously using a six block count index depth VRX will have five Check Rounds. After VRX runs through its checks it then determines whether it should change the difficulty either up or down depending whether the desired block time was overshot or rushed, the severity of which is limited to a maximum of doubling the previous block difficulty or halving it. Finally an average is calculated between the different pair calculated difficulty changes so that the most logical change in difficulty occurs that best suites the blockchain and submitted for the mining/minting network.

3. Future Intentions
While already being currently a nice alternative to the typical difficulty adjustment systems future changes and updates are planned for later releases such as:
- Proof-Of-Work difficulty skew for hybrid PoW/PoS blockchain systems
- Code cleanup and general revisions
- Create seperated PoW and PoS reference implementations
... among other updates not currently thought of or mentioned.

4. Conclusion
Overall this document's intention is provide a general understanding of what VRX is and what it does. The use of the VRX system is still not widely tested or used and currently can only be found in Espers [ESP] and INSaNE [INSANE] blockchain projects as of the writing of the docmentation. This VRX system will continue to evolve to become more robust and overall a effective solution to the blockchain difficulty retarget problem.

Just in case you missed (Tweet link is fine too)

We'll contact them, thank you for letting us know!






@Everyone

Espers ANN (First Post of this thread) has been updated, added the following:
- Bootstraps for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Added Windows Full Client download (also linked below)

>>>Full windows client with Auto-Updater<<<
Now available. We've got the Espers Launcher running again better than ever, several bug fixes and improvements done to it and now we can move onward to the updates we talked about yesterday.

Thank you all for being a part of this and we hope you enjoy what's here and is to come.

PS: Don't forget the Anniversary party over at thecryptochat.net tomorrow April 21st 2017

We don't want to do anything quite that drastic nor do I personally believe it is required.
Also, DOGE has well over 100 Billion and still worth more so count doesn't really come into play.
Truly as we continue to build features and in general build on the coin and refine it, value will come on its own.

All in all this is the plan right now:

1. Update to PoS-v3 (will be done within the next couple days)

2. Make the final change to the diff retarget so that PoW blocks are easier to find (Will be done alongside of PoS-v3)

3. Drop the PoW reward down and implement superblocks, this will increase the mining phase significantly.

4. Introduce a Netcoin style PoS weight curve (so that users with lower amounts of ESP will stake alongside bagholders making it more fun and "fair")


EDIT: After this, we'll actually introduce messaging and such. Yes... FINALLY

We're in touch with them don't worry.






Sorry you feel that way, however that's fairly delusional thinking. There have been numerous times coins have risen up from nothing, do you also not recall the GIANT airdrop in the beginning? still a lot of those coins floating around, so once the availability comes down as more people pick up Espers the value will come up on it's own.

Besides as stated before this is NOT a short-term coin... But thank you for your insight.
Also, we're not going full PoS, however we will be fixing the diff one last time to make PoW more of an available method. Small tweaks and such are still needed. C'mon we're in Alpha, way to reign down on a project that is still in infancy lol.





@Everyone

ANN OP (1st post) updated! New exchanges listed, Faucet links added!

That is some GREAT information! Thank you Griffith for that insight (no sarcasm, being serious).

Couple things I did want to touch base on which I've highlighted bold in the above quote was that you stated you're not sure if the coin age is a factor for Espers.

The PoS implementation we're using for Espers is based off of Blackcoin (like I'm sure most PoS coins use as a reference for their implementation) in which case we've left the coin age factor alone, so in short coin age matters very much so. Well as much as you pointed out.

Also it does appear that there are community members that have either purchased ~100+ Mill to ensure they constantly receive a stake or they've pooled together in smaller amounts over at PoSWallet staking pool which I've sadly seen this happen to a few other PoS coins where now unless you have a fair amount staking doesn't occur as often as some would think/like.

Personally I have ~400 Million that I've purchased over time and it does stake periodically but these coins have also sat in my wallet for weeks/months lol so that also contributes to it. Mind you I have this wallet offline 90% of the time as I like to leave the network weight lower if I can to help others get some.

Overall this is something that I and the team will have to look into and resolve at some point so that staking this coin remains fun for everyone and not just the bag holders. However, at this point in time there are "bigger fish to fry" so to speak including the PoS-v3 update that is planned among many many other things that can be done to further improve functionality and security of Eserps [ESP]

One of the things we're also working on is getting Exchanges to stop using ESP2, which IS NOT our ticker, confusion of this of course arose due to the initial swap from the horribly old sourcecode base that you had helped us fix up in the past.

Anyway, again thanks for the info and it's good to see you around again






Well, it does... Hashrate is updated with every PoW block that is found, so if someone jumps on it with some crazy hashrate for example 40MHash/s it won't reflect this speed right away. It's something that all coins do.




This definitely is NOT the coin for profit guys. I just wanted to state this. This is the coin you get in on because we won't stop working on it, and by we I mean the CryptoCoderz team, through the good the bad and the ugly we will remain here and continue make this project better. It's something to hang onto and watch. But PLEASE don't expect this to be "hey I'll earn 10x what I make from mining/minting".
Also mind you the price is very inexpensive which is nice because you can get into the project with little "risk" if any at all.

The goal with this (albeit quite delayed because we wanted to change the foundation behind the system) is to offer services on the blockchain and have ESP a way to pay to use them, within reason, hence the high coin count and such. If you're getting into the project right now in Alpha phase, then you're investing in what this project is to become. Not what it is now.





Invite sent, hope to see you around





@Everyone

We have confirmed it!
Espers will be getting an anniversary party over at https://thecryptochat.net/ this coming Friday (April 21st 2017) the fun will start @ ~12pm (noon) PST (Pacific Standard Time)
Later on in the event the team will be going live on the air at Flavorcoin Radio which is embedded in the website where the event is being held in the first place to ham it up with church the Flavorcoin dev and others.

This event also includes the opportunity to receive one of the many promo codes for the Espers faucet which is also hosted at thecryptochat.net and we'll be loading in a few million coins that will be handed out via these promo codes for the faucet during the event.

We hope to see you all there so set your calendars and check CryptoCoderz/Espers ESP twitter pages for more info In the meantime we'll be getting busy with fliers and promotional stuff to raise more awareness of this event.

So after looking into this a bit more and thinking about it here's the catch, we need the chain to compare all block times against one another to provide an accurate block rate comparison, so PoW does influence PoS difficulty a little and PoS influences PoW difficulty as raw block rates are used in the retarget method.

Something however that can be done to make PoW and PoS more even and both threads fight fair so to speak is to add a check of PoS blocks in the past X amount of time/blocks vs PoW blocks in the past X amount of time/blocks and skew each threads difficulty depending on how much either thread starts to outweight the other in found blocks. This way the chain would balance out the hybrid selection.

Thank you for pointing this out we never would have thought to do this otherwise, We'll include this difficulty skew in the release of PoS-v3 update that is coming as well and roll everything up into a nice package.

This way there'll definitely be a more even acceptance rate as right now the sheer amount of stakers are making it hard for miners to find PoW blocks despite both systems working smoothly at this point.

You kick major butt elbandi!  



Edit:
@Everyone

Despite the issues that Espers has persevered through and still having small hiccups here and there as we move through the Alpha stage of development we think it would be nice to get more people involved.

What we mean by this is simply: We want more suggestions, requests, events, anything really from the community members.

Let's make Espers fun, not just a place where we all complain about what isn't done yet, things will move forward and progress will always be made as we've shown through numerous updates and continued support of this project.

What do you all think? What would be the best way to make Espers fun again in your eyes? We're open to suggestions.

Let's turn this thing around. For far too long we've all been focused on the negative, every project goes through trials and issues, let's not focus so much on that and look more towards what has already been accomplished and what we can accomplish further.

Perhaps we should leave the future to decide what is worth while and what is not. As many people have stated throughout history, "Only time will tell"

EDIT: Removed pointless snide remark






Shoot us your email through PM and we'll send you an invite, Slack is open to anyone who requests to be invited.





This time we just did it a different way, see we need to not care if the block is PoW or PoS when determining the block spacing, that way we get the true spacing time. When the system retargets it actually chooses which thread to target seperately as shown further down in the code.


It perhaps isn't the traditional way but this way ensures that ACTUAL block rate is calculated as apposed to separate threads calculating their INDIVIDUAL spacing according to PoW or PoS blocktimes instead of looking at both. Do you kinda get what I'm talking about? I may not be explaining it very well I do apologize. I however really value your input! You're an awesome guy elbandi and you've helped us out a lot Also, I'll have to look into the statement further, we are humans after all and I can easily make a mistake. Thank you for pointing me to a potential problem.





I believe your concept of dead is flawed good sir.




hmm, Diff is at 1.5 right now. Don't really know where your pulling your values from there bud.
Also PoW blocks are being found periodically as expected. PoW is working fine, perhaps you should familiarize yourself with a new things called a block explorer?




I'm not saying the exchange is one way or the other, I'm just stating please do NOT buy ESP from there.





The PoW spiked and then came back down, it was to be expected as at first all the blocks were too fast, then too slow, things had to level out. If you check again there are PoW blocks being found periodically now, not just 2 a day. This is day 2 now that we are on the new retarget.

Hello there, Happy to announce that Espers [ESP] is working quite well now that the re-target system has been fixed up and both PoW and PoS are moving smoothly. It took a little while (1-2 weeks) to get it going because the diff was messed up due to a couple new features that were implemented into the blockchain. Now that the prototype features have been fixed the rest of the chain has followed suite in coming back up.

Mind you the chain ran smoothly despite lots of rejects which was apparent by looking at the block explorer. But I suppose false accusations and FUD is all that really matters in the world of crypto.

Also, just wanted to say thank you Griffith for past support and insight, you are quite a knowledgeable guy and it is always nice to see you helping out communities as few people bother to do this anymore, but this latest bit is simply not true and I apologize for jumping in here but CryptoCoderz couldn't take this punch lying down. I do not mean any offence to you, your work, or your associations. I simply wanted to correct what was stated.




I'd like to address a few things if I may, firstly ESP is a coin not a team, Secondly o2o still runs perfectly fine, it is listed on Novaexchange and is healthy. Along with all the other coins from CryptoCoderz. So I have no clue where you're pulling your information from but I would really recommend choosing a reliable source that provides you with actual facts.

The delist of our coins from Cryptopia had nothing to do with actual coin function but was due to hearsay that someone had told the owners of Cryptopia and who took that information to be true without ever once contacting us to look into the accusations. We were accused of making "Hex coin" which was supposed to be simply us supporting "HeisenburgHex" which we promptly discontinued association with before we even started anything with them due to the drama that unfolded. If you'd like to be provided more details we'd be happy to show screenshots of everything that transpired, however, I do not believe this thread to be the appropriate area to facilitate such a discussion.




@This thread,
I apologize for taking up thread space, user's time and overall the inconvenience of having to read about a project that does not relate to the one currently being discussed in this thread. This being said the CryptoCoderz team could not stand idly by while being accused of things that are simply not true or have had their facts misconstrued to such a degree that it paints us out to be some group of idiots. We'd like to mention that we mean no disrespect to the users in this thread or any other thread that we've posted to and we also have worked with Griffith in the past and are not "attacking" him, he's a gifted programmer and we merely wanted to correct some wrongfully stated information and that is all.

We wish everyone the best of luck in this wild world of crypto and hope that you all have/had a great Easter weekend.

PM us, We'll see what we can do to take care of you. We are not able to recover lost coins for users however there's usually something we can come up with regardless to ease the blow.






Yeah didn't quite catch that either.

Don't believe anyone has yet. Also we should probably wait a little as PoS-v3 upgrade is coming out soon for Espers

I'm sorry to say but we've posted numerous time informing users to NEVER BUY FROM YOBIT they are on Espers v1 from 8 months ago and refuse to update, DO NOT buy from them, you are NOT buying Espers.

Please only buy Espers from Exchanges listed on the ANN's OP (Or the first post of this ANN)




Thanks bud, Good to be back as well

That should be plenty to stake, just lave your wallet online, you'll see some stakes roll in The difficulty targeted up really high because it was coming up from the floor so to speak.

Once some more blocks roll through it'll come back down and level out. You'll get stakes

You shouldn't need that many coins, in the past users with ~2-10 Million ESP would stake several times a day

Yesterday we hadn't forked yet to VRX retarget system. Also staking really depends on how many coins you have.





@Everyone
New block explorer launched, thanks to thecryptochat.net!
http://espers.thecryptochat.net/

Already added to the OP, will be updating it more as well over the weekend.

Oh yeah! Just you wait, and not months like before, we're going to be much quicker Life has straightened out and development can continue smoothly now.

Very cool! Btw we are hosting a Anniversary giveaway + a party over @ TheCryptoChat if things go the way they are planned will even be live on  FlavorCoin radio for the event So there's more opportunities to get some ESP

Oh and leave some for me! haha Haven't had a chance to buy any of it up yet. Been buried in code




Thank you sir! We feverishly work on this project for both old and new users such as yourself, your commitment is VERY appreciated and we value community members such as yourself. It is the reason why we have never given up and continue to work our asses of on Espers
As you've seen, if there is ever a problem, we fix it

Be sure to catch the anniversary party @ TheCryptoChat this coming Friday (we'll post an exact date/time tomorrow)

More news and bean-spilling to follow during that event.



Hmmm, PM us your email, we'll invite you into Slack and work with you to get you up and running (will be faster this way as well), also check out thecryptochat.net we hang out there quite often and it's faster than forum replies.


@Everyone

PoS-v3 upgrade is coming this weekend, the soft fork to it will be set out a week in advance so that there are no issues, we will post again once the update is implemented and values set. This will be a time/date fork instead of a block height fork that aims to improve security and stability for the PoS thread.

Thank you all for being a part of this! We do this for you!