Hello. As promised, I bring you a few stats from the Gridcoin block-chain. Let me start with the pretty picture:
The picture represents a difficulty plot from recent days. To smooth it a little, 28 blocks are grouped together, average is plotted as a green line and min-max with a pink band. We can see that the value moves randomly around 2, precisely average difficulty since block 1010200 is 1.89312234. The fact that the difficulty is mostly enclosed in 1-3 and does not jump all over the place, shows how stable the chain is. Apart from the two dips around blocks 1010500 and 1012600, where debug log indicated forks, there is nothing more interesting.
Average block spacing was 96 seconds (899.37 bpd) and now is almost the same, 95.4 seconds (906.1 bpd). Average block size is too almost the same, 1.6kB vs 1.4kB.
In the last 4000 blocks, there were 2873 transactions (excluding stake) and 3322 blocks without any user transactions, which is 4.24 transaction per non-empty block on average. Yeah, it is not comparable to performance of bitcoin. Before the transition, there were sightly more transactions, but only a little.
Now for the DPoR stats. From the last 4000 blocks, 42.6% are from investors, and the top CPIDs have 8%, 5% and 2% respectively. Only 48% (1939) blocks have non-zero BOINC reward, this is a decrease from 79% (3160) before v8. Also there were only 14% investor blocks, but the top CPIDs remained the same with 7%, 4% and 2%. This is probably caused by small researchers loosing their magnitude boost, while the top CPIDs are probably more wealthy and therefore did not notice a difference. As you saw in my previous article, we are working on this known problem.
In total, 92866 GRC was paid in research rewards (4000 blocks) and 148076 in interest. The average DPoR payment increased a little from 34.2 GRC to 47.9 GRC, but the average interest payment increased drastically from 6 to 37 GRC. I don't have an explanation to the increase in interest paid.
On the bright side, we have an increase in superblock production. Average time between superblock decreased from 53.4 hours to 35.3 hours. And 96.6% of blocks are from nodes running the latest version.
As a last note, I would like to let you know that a new version of wallet, fixing some issues, will enter a testing stage soon. It is still work in progress, but I can tell that it will probably not be a mandatory one. So stay tuned for updates.