How would you suggest we go about helping to create a new superblock (short of trying to understand the source code)?
Do you think it could be due to the number of new users joining the network, and overloading the stats servers when requesting the contribution data? If so, should we be switching our wallets off?
People did a test yesterday in IRC: downloading the exact same data for the NeuralNetwork, yet the resulting neural hash differs. With each new user it can make it difficult for consensus (e.g. "because there was 4 new CPIDS in the space of a couple mins").
When the NN wallet ends up with a high rate of same hash it gets popular and a wallet then can create the superblock.
Making it also more difficult is stuff like these (WCG outage. having e.g. 25 superblocks (for each whitelisted project) would prevent that when a BOINC project gets fucked, it "influences" all others by delaying the SB...
I have been observing since yesterday an increase in netweight (currently it is at 91 million), probably it's an increase since like 17h... so, if that doesn't help soon, I wouldn't expect a superblock to come that fast.
How to help?
Thanks for the in depth explanation. Makes a lot of sense. If there is anything else we can do as the common folk, sing out and I'm sure we'll do our best.