Quote from: Brekyrself on November 22, 2013, 02:46:55 am

Would this go along with the vesting period?

Botnets, ASIC, and even to an extent cloud computing should be the overall concern.  If GPU mining provides a < 50% speed boost it still levels the playing field as both CPU and GPU's will get faster with new technology.  Also, most new cpgpu's can do opencl so I do not believe GPU's should be the ultimate enemy, however momentum algorithm may limit their effectiveness which is a plus.

Yes.  The goal was to make minor improvements in every area based upon lessons learned.  I agree that GPUs are not an enemy by themselves unless the reason the GPU successful is because the algorithm is trivial for an ASIC.   I believe this will keep ASICs and GPUs using a large amount of memory.

Any thought on lowering the vesting time period to under 6 months?  45-90 days would be nice 

1.  The simple idea mentioned earlier having a "penalty" for early withdraw is a very clean cut approach.  Restrict any block payout to > 30 days and with an increasing rate up to a full maturity 90 days out.  If this were the case, could any forfeited amount from early withdraw be added to the next block reward?

2. GUI miner is a must for non technical.  If available, we could all convince a handful of friends to run the node.  User selectable 25/50/75/100%, do not punish us that build powerful rigs and want them doing something productive while were not working.

3.  Really need to find out if GPU mining provides any reasonable hash gain over cpu.  It may prove to NOT cut out the casual miner who has an opencl capable cpgpu.

4. A clear cut tx fee structure should be implemented.  New comers may not grasp the fee per kb relationship.

Gpu will level the field with cloud and bot nets.  better to find out now.

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Anyone play around the amount of threads?  In my dual use computer (camera server/desktop) I found better hpm by simply lowering the priority of the pool_miner.exe in task manager instead of limiting the amount of threads via -t or affinity in task manager.

I'm in. 

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Xeon L5639 @ 3.2Ghz/6Gb 165hpm 10 threads -m512

I need more then 6gb ram to run 11-12 threads.

Blocks are flying very quickly again with a lot of blocks being lost as orphans.  I am going to have to increase the effective difficulty or lose money,  fees are going up to 15% until the next difficulty increase, then I will restore 5% fees.  Thank you for understanding.

I would guess your next chain will have an very high starting difficulty and simply let the algorithm lower it down over time?