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I created a coin (hexco.in)
The problem now is, sometimes some user create pools and use rented mining rigs to mine on my coin. But after a while they stop and my blockchain stucks at a certain block.
My question now is, how can I solve this problem? I only have a homserver and a raspi2 running as mining service 24/7 for my coin and a seednode running 24/7.
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The problem now is, sometimes some user create pools and use rented mining rigs to mine on my coin. But after a while they stop and my blockchain stucks at a certain block.
You could include in your expected difficulty calculation a factor of time, where say, for example, every 10 minutes since expected next block time (supposing you have a ten minute average block time) the expected difficulty is lowered by a factor, say divided by 2.
The problem with this method is that it may allow cheating unless you also carefully control network time. If it is not carefully managed then a cheat could submit a block with a future time and a lower difficulty.
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This is not a permanent solution, but you could try organising a fork in which you manually raise the target value. I doubt that this will protect your alt-chain for long though.
You may find a longer term solution with merged mining.
But I could mine with my home pc's for a longer time and it will generate the block after a while? lets say the network h/s drops from 15 mh/s to about 15 kh/s. – Mr. 0x50 – 2018-01-07T15:57:32.773
It won't really matter how you raise the target value, because it is likely you'll encounter the same problem again in the future. Implementing a merged mining solution could prevent this from occurring again. – Matthew Charles Stannard – 2018-01-07T16:01:25.493
Is there a specific use case which your blockchain addresses? – Matthew Charles Stannard – 2018-01-07T15:55:03.490
sorry I don't understand your question – Mr. 0x50 – 2018-01-07T15:55:53.813
Did you create your alt-chain to solve a specific problem? – Matthew Charles Stannard – 2018-01-07T15:57:51.577
no not that really. I just want to test the blockchain tech and maybe it will be a good tech for a future project :) – Mr. 0x50 – 2018-01-07T16:00:18.160