Block time

[realcodywburns]

Your block time is set to 14s(0x0d) by this config setting. For 10s you need to set it to (0x0a)

https://github.com/ellaism/parity-config/blob/c6817bdce2ad5daab081c059513e5e37cd8c4f6a/ellaism.json#L10

[ellaismer]

@realcodywburns 0x0d is 13s, is that correct? Anyway, my mistake. I'll change all the documentations.

[ellaismer]

So from my reading of EIP-2: if blocktime is 13s, excluding the difficulty bomb, the difficulty would decrease, and if blocktime is 12s, the difficulty would increase. So the avg blocktime is therefore 12.5s. @realcodywburns Can you confirm this calculation?

[ellaismer]

No. @realcodywburns my previous comment was wrong, ~the blocktime for Ellaism is indeed 10s.~ The targeted block time is 10-19s.

Here's the start of the lines that calculate the target difficulty in Parity. Notice that durationLimit is only used when we are below Frontier hard-fork. In Ellaism we're always above that, so it comes to this line:

let diff_inc = (header.timestamp() - parent.timestamp()) / increment_divisor;

And increment_divisor is set from difficulty_increment_divisor which defaults to 10. ~So Ellaism's blocktime is indeed 10s.~ So when blocktime is 10-19s, 1 - diff_inc would be 0 and difficulty would not be changed. From EIP-2 you can also confirm this.

Anyway, thanks for noticing this. ~Although there's nothing wrong with blocktime,~ durationLimit is indeed a parameter that is not used. Closing this issue if no objections.

[ellaismer]

I made a mistake in the above again. diff_inc would be 0 for all block times in range 10-19s, so the expected block time is a range, and average block time cannot be easily calculated.

So let's just use the real-world statistics data 14s for Ellaism average block time. I'll change all the documentations.