I just saw that the last fork in the blockchain was caused by my delegate (sorry ), but I really am at a loss as to why... My delegate has been running since 0.4.24 uninterrupted and did not miss a single beat, I am properly synchronized to ntp, have a healthy number of connections, etc.

I did look at some delegates that recently missed isolated blocks, and tried to look at the next and previous producing delegate to try to see a pattern (eg: a delegate not properly synchronized to ntp might produce its block early and ignore the one from the delegate just before him), but couldn't find any...

Any help understanding what happened?

Actually, is there a (general) method to do post-mortem analysis of why a block was missed, or a fork created? Best practices, etc?

Thanks for any tip/suggestion too.

tl;dr delegate bids are described at http://digitalgaia.io


Hi all,

I have been a C++/Python linux developer for the last ~10 years, and more recently on OSX, which is why I started contributing to BitShares by doing the initial work for packaging Keyhotee on OSX, then fixed a few small things to be able to compile the bitshares toolkit natively using clang on OSX (instead of macports gcc), and participated in nearly all the dry runs. I am not so active on the forums (for lack of time, and knowledge about economics, although I'm learning ) but I try to read and stay up-to-date as much as possible, as well as report bugs whenever I can on github.

As I started running a delegate since the launch of BitShares in July, I realized I needed some tools to be able to monitor my delegate easily, so I started to work on the bitshares_delegate_tools, which you can find here:

https://github.com/wackou/bitshares_delegate_tools

(there are a couple of screenshots on the github readme)
 
It then occurred to me that if each delegate were to be doing something more for BitShares, on top of running the delegate client, then this could become a fundamental feature of BitShares DACs as it would create an entire ecosystem of competent, dedicated and diverse set of people, all working towards the same goal of enhancing the network. I believe that creativity comes as sparks of ideas, from diverse and unexpected places in the world, when unfettered minds dream of making a better world

This is why I'd like to present the concept of Digital Gaia, where I propose 2 delegate bids:
- wackou.digitalgaia, which is used to fund my development of the bitshares_delegate_tools
- backbone.digitalgaia, which is used to fund specialized nodes useful for the health of the network

The website describing the delegate bids more in details can be found at http://digitalgaia.io

Hoping you like what I'm proposing, and thank you for reading (and voting for me!)

Cheers,

Wackou.