No one using the coin would be devastating. A bunch of "investors" sitting around having a speculative circle jerk together, in no way puts more coins into circulation. In this way DogeCoin has done more for the Alt Community then all its speculators.
^ And having a large instamine has killed plenty a coin... I'd say it probably keeps more investors away than it attracts, and as much as I like Dark, it's obvious that the instamine is a problem for a lot of people.
Obviously the initial deployment was a disaster.
My view or (radical suggestion) is this... reset the coin. Start at block 0. I know it's radical and the coin will lose value for awhile.
In the long term, maybe 10 - 15 people are upset, but hundreds or thousands of miners jump on board and...
To me the whole project seems a bit too ambitious and complex. I might still invest in it but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. I think alot of thing things they are aiming to do can be built as third party services on top of current blockchains much better... and that this latter type of niche...
Any API to get the current difficulty / network hashrate, etc,etc of Darkcoin?
Looked around for a website with an API but couldn't find anything.
Thanks in advance...
From BitcoinTalk:
Quote from: illodin on Today at 04:10:21 PM
Any idea if digishield or dgw (version2) are susceptible to the same exploit?
Every coin using 1 block retargeting should take note. BCX has correctly identified an attack vector that an attacker (like himself) with enough resources...