You forgot to answer main question. What would I gain from a fork fo the software? An update wouldn't effect mining, feel free to confute me about this.
You forgot to confute my math too.
P.s. "KGW did it's job. Do the math." I did it, maybe it's wrong but I did it, you also quoted it. I can't see your calculations though. I hope they're more accurate than your 100 Ghs network extimate cause it means 100 active pools at 1ghs each
Even developer admitted few threads ago difficulty is maybe broken, only you think it's ok, and yet you didn't confute my absolutely simple math. (my count started at public launch (block 751), it excludes premine, now more hours passed, and larger time amount helped them to confirm if it's broken, (hint: we should find 275 blocks every 24 hours according to the specs, we found 335 since public launch (10 in first 2 minutes) instead of theoretical 700+
Feel free to exclude first 8 hours you spoke about, sadly nothing changes. And by the way last block (
http://cryptexplorer.com/chain/PiCoin?count=500&hi=1087 1086th) took 2 hours 39 minutes and 14 seconds (blocktarget=314seconds), probably a new record!
But that's normal, true? I'm only a "pool owner pissed off because I don't understand how KGW works" what may I know..
What would you gain from a fork?
Hmm... let's look at this.
Forking a coin could change a number of variables... such as difficulty, profitability, value on the markets... etc.
Seeing as some dumbshits decided to pump and dump their pi-coin for 0.0000400, which would have been a fair price considering the difficulty... forking at that point alone would be a good idea... but only given a few weeks' notice, unlike a certain someone else who decided to run off his own fork and fuck people over, regardless of his warning, he never paid back the unconfirmed pi that people mined before he ran his fork.
Honestly... with the current block times... I think it's actually quite a good idea to leave them AS IS. Here's my reasoning behind that.
It prevents pump-n-dump miners looking for a quick profit. Those who come in and start on a pool at the beginning of a new block, take over in hashing power, and take the majority of the block reward, cutting out the other miners who had been there previously. Reasoning is, a pump-n-dump miner isn't going to sit around and wait that long for a block to mature.
Now, I'm usually impatient myself... but I see much potential in this coin as it is right now. However, if the DEV feels he wants to fork, then he shall fork. I'm not going to argue.
The value to you as a pool owner, however, would be greater return. More miners = more fees = more pi = more profit.
Being a pool owner these days is nothing more than creating a forum for miners to gather, and charge them to hash on your network, and make a profit doing so.
Sure, there are those pool owners out there who are simply willing to run a pool at zero profit... but even I wouldn't do that unless it was a private pool.
The profit change you would see... is a faster return on the block rewards, therefore a faster return on the fees you collect, to toss the coins into a market, sell them, and pay for server costs, and make a profit. But that's just my view of it.
I'm sure you probably have much better intentions... and if I jumped the gun with throwing a baseless accusation at you, then I do apologize, however, the fact still remains... it is up to the DEV as to whether there should be a fork or not.
I think there should be a vote as to whether or not there should be a fork, and I think that vote should be done on the picoin forum, not here where there are a bunch of trolls jumping in and out bashing the coin like a bunch of assholes on ritalin and whiskey.
