Early this morning, the Digitalcoin difficulty fix update took place without a hitch. In fact, it went better than expected. One of the largest profit switching pools had forgotten to update their client and with over 800 MH/s pointing at the wrong blockchain we unsuccessful in forking the coin. This goes to show how successful the Digitalcoin developers were in updating their client. Usually, such a high hashrate would be able to take over a coin and cause it to fork. Instead, this large pool was left mining an invalid chain and finding no blocks for just over 8 hours.

The fix issued is a deliberate attempt to try and ward off said profit seeking pools. The fix will limit the difficulty increase to a maximum of 100% and a maximum decrease of 50%. This is to limit the wild difficulty swings that would occur when one of the profit pools would dump all it’s hashing power on the coin temporarily. The swings would fly up to 5, then back down to near 0 when they were done.

So far so good! Here’s to Digitalcoin! Good Job!