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This is another idea in a series that may be useful for salvaging POW's lack of security in small coins. King Solomon could identify stakeholders in 51% attacks. Are there...
Here is a coin idea. Make consensus (using POW or POS-VDF) on txs distinct from coin generation. User fees are the only source of funding for consensus so it needs...
**Theoretical Overview** Small and even medium-sized coins (for a given POW) find it difficult to have value and survive without centralization techniques such as checkpoints and POS. This is due...
**Summary:** This discusses how bad oscillations can develop in simple moving averages. There is a [follow-up article.](https://github.com/zawy12/difficulty-algorithms/issues/48) See also [these tweets](https://twitter.com/zawy3/status/1188741886368014336) for how the oscillations can be stopped by changing...
This discusses the start-up and MTP delay problems in Digishield (e.g. Zcash). It works good, but it has two problems that arguably make it not a lot better than an...
subtitle: My White Whale **Pre-LWMA** In 2016 I worked on trying to improve Zcash's difficulty algorithm with many different ideas. Nothing came of it except for wasting @str4d and @daria's...
MM problems: 1) Big miners selling coin. But what good is a coin if only your small miners want it? 2) Not preventing 51% due to the large majority of...
My current estimate of the best N based on the target solvetime for LWMA is: T = 600, N=45 T = 300, N=55 T = 150, N=70 T = 75,...
CN forks very often (if not always) result in constant chain splits due to different difficulties. It's either because the new code is not backwards compatible with the old code...
I recently noticed coins who need a lower D have an unexpectedly high Std Dev of their D, and vice versa. After a lot of testing and watching many live...