Stopped mining of feathercoins
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Over the past 24 hours i have not mined any feathercoins. Before this everything was normal. What could be wrong?
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Dont’t know… here everything is running fine. The difficulty is a little be high but nothing blocking mining for 24h… Why don’t you check with your pool? Or are you solo mining?
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It could be possible that OP is mining in a pool with very few workers. Those pools take days to solve a single block, especially when you’re unlucky and the actual shares of a block go waaaay above the estimated shares. That’s when things can feel like forever.
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The situation is caused by the large jumps in hasrate.
If a multipool hops on to feathercoin, they increase the hashrate in the blockchain by a factor of 300%-500%. This enables them to mine blocks at a rate of about 1 minute instead off the planned 2.5 minutes.
When the difficulty is increasing they hopp off again, leaving the remaining miners with a low hasrate and high difficulty, what leads to the effect, that a block is found only every 5 or even every 7 minutes.
At the same time the decrease of the difficulty takes a lot of time, as a new difficulty is applied every 126 blocks and the maximal possible difference in difficulty is limited.
it takes 3 - 5 cycles to adjust the difficulty to an acceptable level after a multipool left.
that means: 5 Minutes * 126 * 3 = 1890 Minutes = 31,5 hours (best case)
During that time all remaining miners face a long time to find a block.
And…
just before the correct difficulty is reached, the multipools come back and the game starts again :(
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Join us @ ftc.nut2pools.com - a few “bigger” miners there, 45mh/s right now on the pool.
