on dropping ix difficulty
i read that f2 and other pools that merge mine had to make changes to namecoin so merge mining hash power may be reduced, blocks are still being produced on ix network
as Mark pointed out here ,
the difficulty being even over 1 billion is quite secure, much better than ppc, which would not have nearly as high a proof of work difficulty if not for the high production of proof of stake blocks,
other than coins merged with btc, there is nothing that can touch the difficulty of these , nmc, ix , even i0 , dev ect ,, even group is parked out pretty high and i think only on mm pool........
so i would not worry about it for now,
the resources to merge mine are always going to effect the miners ability to efficiently merge mine the other coins in particular bitcoin
every unit they have set on merge mining has less 'proficient' hashing and is at a bit of a timing disadvantage in mining bitcoin
if i am wrong, please post me a github to a merged mining setup that does not suffer from these issues i believe,
i would love to be wrong on this,
also i have not left i am still here monitoring the netowrk and keeping an eye on things,
that is what i was always here for , nothing more.........
remember the developers of namecoin or any other coin can put out new code but if pools fail to use that code or if it does not work under real world mining conditions that cannot be tested in your living room these are real issues.......................
i read namecoin devs had a fix deployed, (i don't have a link to the code)
again i don't believe ix has to worry about this for reasons i previously stated and feel foolish repeating.
also if you compare ix difficulty to i0 remember to multiply or divide by a factor of five due to different block time
suppose difficulty drops to 1 billion even 500 million, i seriously doubt anyone is going to spend the time, money and resources plus have the knowledge to take it out,
attacking namecoin , something that is still being mined may make sense if an attacker was looking for financial rewards,
also more difficult when namecoin difficulty is higher but remember if someone 51% ix now they could control the chain however no new coins are being mined so much less incentive to attack imo............
the pools may be tired of spending a lot of resources on merge mining of all the coins if it takes a little edge away from bitcoin mining,
if they were going to drop ix or other coins i think they would have done it long ago,
i may be wrong but i suspect they are just slowing it down since it is still running so fast it would be nearly impossible to attack....
then again what do i know........lol
edit one note please do not tell me this 20 mb block test is coming back,
that is something i cannot support , do not recommend at all,
the bitcoin test net can run that , it is the craziest idea i have ever heard of
And f2pool announced 2 days ago that they have now pulled all support for i0, so that coin is done.
There's also the recent announcement of the possibility of chain forks in coins based on old code. This makes pools a bit uncomfortable to run them. See the
namecoin updates going on for example.
The ssl bug again? I thought they just gone done fixing that! Arg.
Just as well we didn't instantly throw money at taking the fix and putting into all the merged mined coins.
I thought though that bitcoin fixed it then namecoin replicated the fix, did they fail to replicate it properly or is bitcoin not fixed afterall?
EDIT: See
http://coinzen.org/index.php/topic,3938.0.html - I am urging DeVCoin to whip up bounties for getting fixes done for all the merged mined coins.
-MarkM-
