So let's recap how we are looking.
The fork seems to have gone as planned, although it seems there was a bit of strife right after it became active. But otherwise the chain appears to be in good shape.
I am seeing a very low orphan rate, and low CPU usage, and so far no side chains. So that is good!
Spacing and difficulty appear to leveling out too.
5667915 1 minute 20.5 kB 8,343.469425 HBN 0.7220 Proof of Stake
5667914 2 minutes 30.8 kB 12,786.755437 HBN 0.7229 Proof of Stake
5667913 4 minutes 30.8 kB 16,790.660042 HBN 0.7220 Proof of Stake
5667912 6 minutes 30.6 kB 10,172.808362 HBN 0.7203 Proof of Stake
5667911 8 minutes 20.4 kB 9.098976 HBN 0.7077 Proof of Stake
I think the amount of clients on the network is a bit low right now. But that should increase and get back to normal over time.
The reward is a bit lower then I anticipated, but we still have the change at Friday Night that should bring it back up. I am guessing 40-60%. We shall see.
The Min reward is going to be at 20%, so no matter what happens to difficulty that will be the lowest you will earn. Now the max reward cap is also staying at 250, so again over time the amount of coins it will take to stake will increase over time. There by continuing to lower the creation percentage for the block chain. This will take many years to get to that point.
In any even this is how this coin should have behaved from the start. But the 20 second block time was just too much for a global network of wallets that were also staking.
So what is next?
Now that we have a stable network. I will have to spend less time ensuring the block chain is whole, and more time to development.
Immediate Goals:
Get a client out there for other platforms. Mac and Linux right away. I would love help on the Mac wallet..
Get Cryptopia back online. I don't plan to push this until next week, after everything looks safe and sound.
Update the code to allow for higher, potentially unlimited combine/split threshold values.
Short/Medium term Goals:
Continue to update the code base for more security and lower cpu, lower memory, fix bugs and compiling issues and lots more functionality!
Longer Term Goals:
Hard Forks? Not sure what we will need yet, but anything will be 6-12 months out at this point.
Create a light weight wallet. Electrum type. With eventual staking capabilities. Very low foot print.
Lots of other ideas I will share later.
But all of this is now possible because we moved to a reasonable block time and decent staking algo.