[LTCD] LitecoinDark.com ★ Scrypt ★ Difficulty Shield ★ Multipool ★ Fast

[TrollByFire]

Looks like we made the transition smoothly, and Difficulty Shield's modular design played a big part in this one.  A stub difficulty engine was built and made effective at block 59999 which essentially makes "all blocks" zero difficulty.  At block 60000, control of network difficulty was once again passed to the KGW-based module which has a maximum upward adjustment which allowed us to ease back into a proper block schedule.

Essentially, what we've just done was modularly swap difficulty algorithms on the fly using shield's OO architecture not once, but twice within just a few blocks.

This is what all the delay was for.

Best of luck to you all.  I already have several changes planned for the next update.

[Ghost55]

Nice Breaking News ltcd is multipool resistant   Now we know what they have been doing Great work Devs

A big multipool contact the team to tell us what to do with LitecoinDark, kind of controlling the coin. Unfortunately for them it didn't work out so well...  

It's probably the multipools dumping all that coin so low!!

I have one thing to say to them... Bye bye!!!

lol

[Ghost55]

Looks like we made the transition smoothly, and Difficulty Shield's modular design played a big part in this one.  A stub difficulty engine was built and made effective at block 59999 which essentially makes "all blocks" zero difficulty.  At block 60000, control of network difficulty was once again passed to the KGW-based module which has a maximum upward adjustment which allowed us to ease back into a proper block schedule.

Essentially, what we've just done was modularly swap difficulty algorithms on the fly using shield's OO architecture not once, but twice within just a few blocks.

This is what all the delay was for.

Best of luck to you all.  I already have several changes planned for the next update.

Great work... With your ingenuity in coding I can't wait to see what you come up with... We are very lucky to have such a skilled programmer on the team!!

Cheers,

Ghosty

[jahl]

Looks like we made the transition smoothly, and Difficulty Shield's modular design played a big part in this one.  A stub difficulty engine was built and made effective at block 59999 which essentially makes "all blocks" zero difficulty.  At block 60000, control of network difficulty was once again passed to the KGW-based module which has a maximum upward adjustment which allowed us to ease back into a proper block schedule.

Essentially, what we've just done was modularly swap difficulty algorithms on the fly using shield's OO architecture not once, but twice within just a few blocks.

This is what all the delay was for.

Best of luck to you all.  I already have several changes planned for the next update.

Great work... With your ingenuity in coding I can't wait to see what you come up with... We are very lucky to have such a skilled programmer on the team!!

Cheers,

Ghosty

+1

[Ghost55]

WTF 90k sell wall at 1190

THE GYPSIES ARE MAKING THEIR MOVE! hahahahah

And its gone and now it might get interesting.

damn, i thought about buying it :/

LOL The thought crossed my mind also... Guess they found a bit of last minute sanity!! LOL

The sharks are circling!!

[jahl]

WTF 90k sell wall at 1190

THE GYPSIES ARE MAKING THEIR MOVE! hahahahah

And its gone and now it might get interesting.

damn, i thought about buying it :/

go get it, its back

its gone again lol, i'll go buy 1 btc and transfer it to bittrex when it pops up again

[Kimonio]

WTF 90k sell wall at 1190

THE GYPSIES ARE MAKING THEIR MOVE! hahahahah

And its gone and now it might get interesting.

damn, i thought about buying it :/

go get it, its back

its gone again lol, i'll go buy 1 btc and transfer it to bittrex when it pops up again

Was just about to do the same 

[jahl]

its being send to trex as we speak

[gavrilo77]

Somebody bought

[Kimonio]

Somebody bought

https://i.imgur.com/EBwql.gif

[jahl]

Somebody bought

damn yea,i'll get the next one then
or put up a buy wall at same price?

[BitCoin Operated Boy]

Nice Breaking News ltcd is multipool resistant   Now we know what they have been doing Great work Devs

A big multipool contact the team to tell us what to do with LitecoinDark, kind of controlling the coin. Unfortunately for them it didn't work out so well...  

Great work! :-)

[Xircom]

We have to tell then, that this multipool was throwing 50 Ghash at the network at last Hardfork, so we could not get through the blocks. I can tell you all we could bite out tongues for not shouting like maniacs.
Instead we took the quiet way and this hard-fork is the result. No multipool is going to tell us what to do ever again.
Now the team can focus on the real deal and move on with the dev.

Thanks guys for your patience, it has been a struggle.

[Kimonio]

We have to tell then, that this multipool was throwing 50 Ghash at the network at last Hardfork, so we could not get through the blocks. I can tell you all we could bite out tongues for not shouting like maniacs.
Instead we took the quiet way and this hard-fork is the result. No multipool is going to tell us what to do ever again.
Now the team can focus on the real deal and move on with the dev.

Thanks guys for your patience, it has been a struggle.

Wow. Amazing to hear what goes on behind the scenes.

I am very impressed with how your team approached and resolved the issue with the multipool.

Keep up the great work!

[TrollByFire]

We have to tell then, that this multipool was throwing 50 Ghash at the network at last Hardfork, so we could not get through the blocks. I can tell you all we could bite out tongues for not shouting like maniacs.
Instead we took the quiet way and this hard-fork is the result. No multipool is going to tell us what to do ever again.
Now the team can focus on the real deal and move on with the dev.

Thanks guys for your patience, it has been a struggle.

^ This.  That said, my vote was not one in favor of quite such a drastic drop, but more of a gradual reduction.  That said, I am only one person, and just because I'm the guy that writes the code does not put me in charge of the decisions that are made.  That responsibility lies with the community, and the community voted for a drastic reward reduction.  This type of community-governed change is exactly why I support LTCD and will continue to implement features, updates, fixes, and complete the work laid out in the roadmap without question or hesitation.

My opinion is that this is what open source is all about.  I will continue to deliver the changes requested by the community to the best of my ability.

[Xircom]

Yes, it has been some long nights for the team and especially Troll.... Thanks Troll
We have now proved as well that the 2 Gen coin is not a joke, we did this ON THE FLY

A Tired LTCD team..... But just until tomorrow  

[jahl]

We have to tell then, that this multipool was throwing 50 Ghash at the network at last Hardfork, so we could not get through the blocks. I can tell you all we could bite out tongues for not shouting like maniacs.
Instead we took the quiet way and this hard-fork is the result. No multipool is going to tell us what to do ever again.
Now the team can focus on the real deal and move on with the dev.

Thanks guys for your patience, it has been a struggle.

^ This.  That said, my vote was not one in favor of quite such a drastic drop, but more of a gradual reduction.  That said, I am only one person, and just because I'm the guy that writes the code does not put me in charge of the decisions that are made.  That responsibility lies with the community, and the community voted for a drastic reward reduction.  This type of community-governed change is exactly why I support LTCD and will continue to implement features, updates, fixes, and complete the work laid out in the roadmap without question or hesitation.

My opinion is that this is what open source is all about.  I will continue to deliver the changes requested by the community to the best of my ability.

i hope you don't blame us too much for complaining/wanting (about) features all the time while you were clearly working hard on this

[voodoo1967]

Wow look at the buy demand for ltcd on bittrex wtf lol 

[voodoo1967]

price going up now buckle up lol  why did I sell so low oh wait I didn't lol 

[TrollByFire]

i hope you don't blame us too much for complaining/wanting (about) features all the time while you were clearly working hard on this

Not at all.  Demand for features essentially implies both confidence in our ability to deliver as well as conveys demand for LTCD as a whole.  That said, and this was a perfect example of it, but fixes are generally more important than features which is why the original difficulty shield update (feature) was so important.  We needed a module that would be useful for making us multipool resistant at the time, and shield did its job nicely.  Once again we tried a traditional hard fork, and it failed due to a combination of heavy-handed pool operators that were not able (or not willing) to update in time and what could be seen as a bug in bitcoin proper.  Shield provided us with a nice workaround for the issue by making possible the capability of writing a tiny (~8-10 lines of code) module for the shield engine that once again reinforces the benefit we could gain by moving as much of LTCD out of core as possible.