Should we Re-Enable our Anti-Bot-Net Feature in Prod (ABN)

[Rob Andrews]

The ABN feature reduces the liklihood of bot-net mining activity against BiblePay.

Rob wants to ensure Security is maintained and our difficulty level never falls below 5000.

Should we re-enable ABN in small steps, starting with a 1,000 BBP requirement?

Then, if difficulty remains > 5000, we can increase our ABN requirement in steps weekly maintaining diff around 10K or more.

[jsheets1970]

My only comment Rob would be that I would prefer to err on the side of caution and initial set the required  BBP amount a little higher than 1K. Obviously this could be adjusted at anytime but the concern to avoid a fork is real and I for one would prefer to see 10K as a starting point for safety. Just my 2 cents on this.

[capo]

i think we will be fine with 32k, to cover 205 blocks, only 6.5m is needed so we will have any block covered multiple times

[sunk818]

Average difficulty last 1000 blocks is 4.3k


286 blocks out of 1000 had difficulty greater than 5k.


I wonder if it is time to consider raising the abn weight requirement from 125k to 250k.


Since greater abn weight will encourage more hodling this will:


1) encourage more bbp purchases from exchange,
2) better payout for miners & masternodes,

3) discourage bot net even further