What would be the cause of high ORPHAN BLOCKS
i am getting loads of them. like 70 to 80%
last 24 hours i minted 16 blocks but 12 of them ORPHAN
i mint 1 block, then after 2 or 3 confirmations block suddenly becomes an ORPHAN.
seems bit suspicious.
or mint 1 block and 5 active connections suddenly drops to 1 or 2 connections.
seems bit suspicious also.
PoS has a very high weight when compared to PoW, so a single PoS block can orphan a whole sequence of PoW blocks.
If someone has a client that's running a bit slowly it is possible for it to spend so much effort generating the block that it misses the fact that new blocks (PoW) have been added to the blockchain in the meantime. Their client then spits out the high weight PoS block, which orphans the PoW blocks.
It's a common problem with hybrid PoS/PoW coins, especially quieter ones. At one point with another coin I had a script set up to generate a PoS block whenever I minted a PoW block because otherwise it would have ended up orphaned by someone else's PoS block.