Ok, thank you for the information. That is what I thought was happening from reading the code, but there is a lot of code and I am not very familiar with the biblepay code.
I hope you do not mind all the questions. I have another one:
Is the recent increase in average block time intentional? Illustration:
The last 1000 blocks (279163 - 280162) took 5 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes (8598 minutes) for an average block time of 8.598 minutes/block.
At an average of 7 min block or 24 hour * 60 min / 205 ~= 7.024 min/block there should have been 1224 blocks in that amount of time.
Which means we "lost" 224 blocks - more than a whole day.
Please note that if it is intentional, I am guessing it is due to a previous over-emission of blocks or bbp. I am curious though.
Well first of all, no I don't mind any questions as long as they don't attract hackers to some public conversation that would hurt us, but this is obviously fine;
Next let me clarify on our 7 minute block target, on the point where you asked if it was intentional that we were emitting slow; This is not intentional in any way.
Let me expound that bitcoin, is off by something like a Year on their masterclock; this is entirely normal when the chain goes through periods that are increasing in difficulty (I think in the last quarter, in our case, generally, our randomx miners doubled their mining efforts in the Fun pool- we went from a diff of 1 to a diff of 7-8 and back to 3 or so), so I think we had an increasing diff and that slowed the block rate down a little; so we are actually much less volatile than bitcoin in general since genesis;
But to your point, I am extremely concerned with fair weight and measures in biblepay (proverbs 16:11), so much that we have a dedicated masterclock command (from the rpc, you can type 'exec masterclock' and see the metric and suggestions) that gives us the guide to whether we should speed up the masterclock-- and we actually have sped it up. When we went from POBH to RX, we had a period of slow emissions, and we sped it up from 420 seconds to 370 seconds, in accordance with the estimated adjustment in the masterclock output; so its actually running at a 13%+ tweak in speed right now to catch us up... Another words it will probably speed up naturally over the next quarter without doing anything; what we do is we can speed it up even more if we dont eventually see 6 min blocks by next quarter, for example.
This is not based on our emission target though. Our emission target was definitely too high up to 2020 due to overspending on DWS; but we reacted vehemently with APM and that actually corrected the emission problem completely (which just finished actually); but if you type 'gettxoutsetinfo' you will see this is complete, we made up for that, thank God, and we are right on schedule now. Our emissions perfectly match the schedule and should hit the exact number roughly in Dec this year.. Our only problem now is praying to God to remove our sell wall on SX.. I think that is our biggest hole to climb out of. Other than that, we have no debt to anyone, and fair weights and measures here (a fair mining algorithm with double compensation and no electricity costs etc), and Im committed to speeding up the master clock over time to reach the exact block count since genesis etc.
8200 BBP
