The second test has been running about 48 hours and the block times are horrible.
From Block 130 to block 6818 it has been approx. 48 Hours.
6688 blocks / 48 hours = ~139 blocks an hour.
That is over twice the target of 60 blocks an hour.
Difficulty has been rising, despite the very low hash rate, from .00398 - .00899
So I am in a bit of a spot.
The difficulty algo is steadily raising the Difficulty to slow what little hash rate we have down. The Difficulty algo limits itself to no more then 200% a day (PPC/NVC type Difficult adjustment).
The first round of appeared to go good, however I noticed some variables before the second round of testing that just did not seem right. Seeing as we had a low hash rate for the first round also, I figured that could be effecting the algo. The low hash rate could also be the issue now.
If I go to change anything, anybody running clients will need to update and that can be like turning an elephant. I could just set up a private network of daemons connected with the pool and do a closed loop test where I could adjust "on the fly" so to speak. There does not appear to be too many people interested in testing , so this will probably be the route I take.
I will put the updated test clients on github, but every new version will be set to reject connections to earlier versions.
This will be OK because these are just fake test coins. Mining will remain unaffected at the pool except for the minute or so when I switch out daemon.
I am going to throw everything I got at the pool for a few hours to see what happens. I will set up the semi-closed loop test tomorrow. Once running smooth I should be able to dial the speed in relativity quickly.
Also , how many have tried the old wallet recovery system? All you need to do is put a copy of your old KED wallet.file in the place of the new one that gets created during install.
The client will detect it is the old version wallet, salvage the keys and create a new version wallet with them. You should then have the same amount of KED as you did on the old chain with that old wallet file.
I need feedback on how that is working in the field.
On a less technical note, I was under the impression the Scifi and Unfocus (and myself) wanted to get some excitement and hoopla going with the Relaunch.
I will admit that I haven't been as active in the community since taking on the development of the relaunch client/daemon, but I have been putting in many hours as the sole developer of the relaunch. Unfous and Scifi have their projects going for the scifi community including the Scifi exchange, website, wikki....etc. There is much work to be done and that is how we decided to divide it up.
so that is where it stands. More news as it comes.
