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Here are some more stats for Feathercoin pulled from my pool database:

BlockCount / Min Block / Max Block / Date

130 21928 22058 2013-04-23
680 22059 22739 2013-04-24
654 22740 23394 2013-04-25
700 23395 24095 2013-04-26
581 24096 24677 2013-04-27
904 24678 25582 2013-04-28
1167 25583 26750 2013-04-29
1195 26752 27947 2013-04-30
758 27948 28706 2013-05-01
837 28707 29544 2013-05-02
1074 29545 30619 2013-05-03
911 30621 31532 2013-05-04
758 31533 32291 2013-05-05
170 32292 32462 2013-05-06
61 32463 32524 2013-05-07
50 32525 32575 2013-05-08
26 32576 32602 2013-05-09
48 32603 32651 2013-05-10
41 32652 32693 2013-05-11
28 32694 32722 2013-05-12
38 32723 32761 2013-05-13
28 32762 32790 2013-05-14
14 32791 32805 2013-05-15
14 32806 32820 2013-05-16
9 32821 32830 2013-05-17
19 32831 32850 2013-05-18
15 32851 32866 2013-05-19
20 32867 32887 2013-05-20
40 32888 32928 2013-05-21
44 32929 32973 2013-05-22
61 32974 33035 2013-05-23
39 33036 33075 2013-05-24
23 33076 33099 2013-05-25
28 33100 33128 2013-05-26
24 33129 33153 2013-05-27
26 33155 33181 2013-05-28
18 33182 33200 2013-05-29
19 33201 33220 2013-05-30
25 33221 33246 2013-05-31
28 33247 33275 2013-06-01
36 33276 33312 2013-06-02
38 33313 33351 2013-06-03
42 33352 33394 2013-06-04
54 33395 33449 2013-06-05
35 33450 33485 2013-06-06
50 33486 33536 2013-06-07
111 33537 33648 2013-06-08
284 33649 33933 2013-06-09
1302 33934 35236 2013-06-10
688 35239 35927 2013-06-11
156 35928 36084 2013-06-12
112 36085 36197 2013-06-13
364 36198 36562 2013-06-14
713 36564 37277 2013-06-15
508 37278 37786 2013-06-16
608 37787 38395 2013-06-17
238 38397 38635 2013-06-18
95 38636 38731 2013-06-19
86 38732 38818 2013-06-20
457 38819 39276 2013-06-21
511 39277 39788 2013-06-22
682 39790 40472 2013-06-23
587 40473 41060 2013-06-24
577 41061 41638 2013-06-25
553 41639 42192 2013-06-26
487 42194 42681 2013-06-27
652 42682 43334 2013-06-28
395 43335 43730 2013-06-29
741 43732 44473 2013-06-30
272 44474 44746 2013-07-01
481 44747 45228 2013-07-02
332 45230 45562 2013-07-03
455 45564 46019 2013-07-04
897 46023 46920 2013-07-05
232 46922 47154 2013-07-06
156 47157 47313 2013-07-07
221 47314 47535 2013-07-08
319 47536 47855 2013-07-09
761 47854 48615 2013-07-10
679 48617 49296 2013-07-11
315 49299 49614 2013-07-12
192 49615 49807 2013-07-13
449 49808 50257 2013-07-14
443 50259 50702 2013-07-15
673 50705 51378 2013-07-16
315 51381 51696 2013-07-17
493 51697 52190 2013-07-18
1281 52191 53472 2013-07-19
413 53473 53886 2013-07-20
656 53888 54544 2013-07-21

[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“22521” timestamp=“1374425683”]
Hi BigVern, thanks for checking my calcs

I have already noted previously, Feathercoin was much further behind the coin production rate, before the attack on 19th July 2013.

It will be interesting to see if you see the same reduction in missed blocks I have seen on my analysis.
[/quote]

DigitalCoin is one I choose to examine. Now with digital coin, the genesisblock was mined 14 days before the first block was mined - which is unusual to see. In line 2048 of main.cpp of the source code has “block.nTime = 1367867384;”, so it’s probably from the genesis block timestamp.

DigitalCoin

Genesis Block Time: 1367867384 (2013-05-06 19:09:44)

First Block Time: 1369043847 (2013-05-20 09:57:27)

Current Time: 1374434894

Seconds In Use from 1st Block: 5391047
Seconds In Use from Genesis Block: 6567510

Block Time: 20 sec

Max Block Height (1st block): 269553
Max Block Height (Genesis block): 328376

Current Block Height: 272882

Blocks Over (1st block): 3329 (66580 seconds or 0.77 days)
Blocks Under (Genesis block): 55494

BigVern

These block rates are not impossible. It is allowed to find blocks shorter than the allocated time window if the blockchain is shorter than it is expected to be at this point in time.

It’s my opinion that somebody has realized that many blockchains are underfilled, and are using their massive hashpower to get these blocks quickly until the chain reaches it’s maximum possible height.

I’m still finding blocks on fcpool, but not as often as expected - this is due to the large hashrate currently on the network. I’d expect difficulty to rise soon.

BigVern

[quote name=“Pyxis” post=“22502” timestamp=“1374413062”]
Big Vern dropped us again about 40 mins ago.
His tweet “FTC trade paid is suspended again due to an attack that has broken the chain again.”
[/quote]

Was only for a brief period while I checked out some stats. It was put back online quickly.

BigVern

You really should look at the chain as a whole. Looking at the entire chain you can see that Feathercoin is actually behind in blocks per design, which means there were periods of time where no blocks where found in the 2.5 minute allocation.

Time of first block: 1366147060 (2013-04-16 21:17:40)

2.5 minute blocks (150 sec)

Current Unix Time: 1374421048

Seconds Passed since Block #1: 8273988

Estimated Blocks@ 150sec each: 55160

Actual Blocks in Chain: 54471

# Blocks Behind: 689

BigVern

fcpool.com stratum has been updated

BigVern

Hey guys,

I run a litecoin pool at litebonk.com

I’ve decided at the request of some of my users to setup a separate pool for feathercoin. We have both getwork and stratum protocol support.

http://www.fcpool.com

Have fun!

BigVern