Re: [bitcoin-dev] New difficulty algorithm needed for SegWit2x fork? (reformatted text)

2017-10-11 Thread Moral Agent via bitcoin-dev
>Instead of there being one altcoin fighting to take hashpower from bitcoin, thereā€™d now be 2 Yes, there would be 2. One of which would (in the scenario we are discussing) be producing blocks excruciatingly slowly but be the same in all other aspects. >changing the difficulty adjustment algorithm

[bitcoin-dev] New difficulty algorithm part 2

2017-10-11 Thread Scott Roberts via bitcoin-dev
(This is new thread because I'm having trouble getting yahoo mail to use "reply-to", copy-pasting the subject did not work, and the list has not approved my gmail) A hard fork in the near term is feasible only post-disaster (in my mind, that means Core failing from long transaction delays that