"WARNING: abnormally high number of blocks generated

Technical Support
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{
“version” : 1000050,
“protocolversion” : 170002,
“walletversion” : 60000,
“balance” : 0.00000000,
“blocks” : 435,
“timeoffset” : 0,
“connections” : 8,
“proxy” : “”,
“difficulty” : 2773.43207836,
“testnet” : false,
“keypoololdest” : 1477673480,
“keypoolsize” : 101,
“paytxfee” : 0.00000000,
“relayfee” : 0.00005000,
“errors” : “WARNING: abnormally high number of blocks generated, 420 blocks received in the last 4 hours (96 expected)”

This correct?

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Looks like the miners made blocks so fast that the difficulty didn’t react in time. We are now seeing blocks that are supposed to be mined ~12 hours from now. The difficulty will get too high for the network, so the block times will increase until that warning goes away.

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Should I see “testnet” : false?

4

Yes if you are on the mainnet

5

thanks I am. y’all are great.

6

Confirming high number of blocks.

{
    "version" : 1000050,
    "protocolversion" : 170002,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 488,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 5692.59414482,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1477676757,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "relayfee" : 0.00005000,
    "errors" : "WARNING: abnormally high number of blocks generated, 405 blocks received in the last 4 hours (96 expected)"
}
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difficulty now over 14,600? whats going on here?

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Just a very rapid increase in hashrate.