[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“2230” timestamp=“1368203680”]
Let’s talk about difficulty. There are a lot of people who are keen to see a technical change to the way that difficulty is handled. These requests are down to Feathercoin being at a high difficulty compared to the amount of hash power on the network.
One proposal is a difficulty adjust every 504 blocks and at a difference of 40% maximum.
There have been some interesting suggestions put forward that would take more time to implement and test than it would take for us to get out of the current high difficulty. Perhaps the solution is an involved one and will not be seen soon.
Miners are important but there is already a lot of coins in circulation. A dry spell in new coins does not mean the end of the coin. So do not get too worried about this.
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The problem is not the dry spell in new coins, but rather the risk of a 51% attack and the fact that the coin is unusable at the moment due to the time it takes to move coins around.