Why it is paused?

[PJanisio]

Hi,

Just curious what is the actual reason? You made much progress with confirmation rate lately.

[vuapo-eth]

The confirmation rate improved because the coordinator was upgraded from issuing milestones every 2-3 minutes to every minute. But as soon as we hit 20 tps, the confirmation rate went down to ~30% and it would have been only getting worse if we kept it going.

We decided to rather stop it early this time instead of waiting until the network becomes unusable again, so nobody blames us for congesting the tangle. Unfortunately, the protocol in its current form seems not to be ready for this amount of spamming and we will need to wait for the new tip selection algorithm or any other upgrade.