just curious, what is a retarget and how could you not reach a retarget?
Retarget is the difficulty change after mining 2016 blocks. It will target a difficulty that way that the average time of a block generated is ~10mins if i'm right.
When there is some fools with asics pointing 1thash at the network, mining the blocks in no-time the re-target after the 2016blocks will shoot up (like now 16k, while it is supposed to be ~4k when mining with 30ghash)
When they stop after the retarget the difficulty is around 30 times higher then normal. Thay way we can take a year to get a retarget again. So most people will quit mining it then (not me
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Right now its at a good difficulty for the 270ghash mining power bytecoin has. (retarget will double the difficulty) but it can be some asic guy or botnet just trying to crush bytecoin. But also can be frustrated bitcoin miners protesting against mtgox.
I quit bitcoin mining because mtgox is just "ruling" bitcoin. People see it as an commodity they can invest and trade in rather then a new currency
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BYTECOIN WILL RULE THIS WORLD