Only 6 blocks in the last 5 hours. 1h 20m between two of them. Over an hour since the last block. What happened to hashrate?
Few hours ago, there was over 20 blocks mined in one hour. Now we have opposite. It looks like some miner is testing how much he can stress network by swinging hash power btc<>bch.
This wouldn't be possible if BCH mining was diverse and not concentrated.
#ChangeThePOW
Might just be variance, but activity from the last few hours is nearly all from 'known' miners with activity from 'unknown' miners has dropped off significantly.
I did turn off my equipment, I gotta by some new miners soon. These miners are not profitable with the solar panels I have, I need new stuff. I am sure others are having same problem.
You can send unsustainable miners to
#Venezuela and we get the running here for you, you earn 50% of the revenue. In this paradise the electricity cost is so low.
#realbitcoinclub
Probably we still lack miners for Bitcoin Cash. Is it running smoothly now?
Difficulty adjustment should even that out. This was referring to a time when there was temporarily an unusually low hashrate.
Keep reading issues with the blockchain
That's what you get when you have only 1-2% of the SHA256 network....SHA256 miners choose and secure BTC.
If you only have a small group of miners on your network then one mining OP going down or going back to BTC means no or slow blocks on BCH.
A better DAA can fix that. It is a control-engineering problem that is entirely solvable even in an environment such as this.
Lipstick on a pig. BCH needs a POW algorithm change.
I develop for a BCH fork (DeVault) and we use the LWMA algo.. It's worked out well for us and we experience much much larger variations in our hash rates due to being a micro-cap.
We're still a sha256 coin though.. (LWMA is a difficulty algorithm)
How would that not be vulnerable in the same way? You're trying to predict what people will do rather than solve the technical problem I think.
The community is big enough to defend the network.
Having 1-2% of the total SHA256 hashrate is not a technical problem, but it's a huge systemic risk.
In my unhumble opinion, calls to change the POW or decrease block times are attempts to infiltrate BCH & damage it from the inside.
That's Coretard level retardation.
I don't necessarily think that's your motivation, but I think that's the origin of the arguments.
This kind of ignorance lead to the failure of BTC. Their propaganda was that "every attempt to rise the blocksize limit (direct on-chain capacity increase) is an attack on
#Bitcoin".
My, aren't you saucy today. Well, think what you wish. The block size limit was a hack to protect the fledgling network that was no longer necessary, so I never would argue to keep it.
Please come back when you improved your reading comprehension. Most people believed that rising on-chain capacity is an attack. this is why we are on a minority fork with little hash.
Ultimately, most of the big decisions from the original bitcoin were good. You still haven't explained how a different POW would prevent the same problems. I suspect you cannot.
What same problems? it would instantly make the network a lot stronger and better proposition for investors/users. It would enable a positive feedback loop imo.
No, it doesn't. What BCH needs is more adoption and price and hashrate will come with it.
Clueless.
BCH has so little hash behind it that it discourages adoption in itself.
Meanwhile, I think it's apparent that the community is big enough to throw enough CPU/GPU miners behind a new algo to liberate and defend the network.
Personally, I would deploy 192 cpu cores and/or 30 GPUs if it was changed.
Yes. That is one valid proposal :-)
Has this happened before? Does it mean low amount of tx?
Almost exactly 24 hours ago very similar thing happened.
This happens a lot, even on BTC (moreso in the past though). Smaller cap coins have much larger variations in hash and experience these events often.
It means low amount of hashpower.
