Tech tips for those watching the Cash Wars: yesterday's way of watching blocks doesn't apply any more. A little info on DAAs and Hashrates is in order. (Thread.)
BCH has a per-block DAA (Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm.) Mining Difficulty adjusts after every block, based on the previous 144 block average. (SMA - Simple Moving Average.) If blocks are slow, it gets easier to speed them up; if blocks are fast, it gets harder to slow them.
BCH has split into ABC and SV, with different progress rates, so also now with different Difficulties. SV blocks are coming slower, so SV Difficulty is coming down (to speed the blocks up.) So long as SOME miners continue, neither of these chains will grind to a halt.
The Difficulty adjustment means that simple block height doesn't tell you which chain has more "total hashpower" anymore. They will become less and less directly comparable.
And those network "Hashrates" you see? Those are necessarily estimates based on many post blocks, not the actual hashrate right now. So both ABC and SV will be reporting a Hashrate based mostly on previous BCH blocks for a while. False equivalence.
TL;DR: we can no longer estimate % of hashpower for a chain based on blocks mined. These percentages will wildly underestimate the differences until a few dozen more blocks have gone by on each chain.
@threadreaderapp, unroll please.
