"WARNING: abnormally high number of blocks generated

{
“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?

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?

Yes if you are on the mainnet

thanks I am. y’all are great.

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)"
}

difficulty now over 14,600? whats going on here?

Just a very rapid increase in hashrate.