Found one issue after the hard fork, the original plan was to raise the spike difficulty level within 3 seconds to the level of dogecoin. The current dogecoin difficulty is about 2 million,
litecoin difficulty is about 7 million.
However, the v1.2.0 math is off by 10x. My mistake. The spike difficulty is only 1/10 of dogecoin level. Here is screenshot I obtained on the small ASIC rig that we ran. Below screenshot is from either Findblocks or Miners.rocks pool. We actually tested on both pools and got similar screenshot like below:
https://ibb.co/k0xYgGTNote in the screenshot, the mining pool said "Network difficulty changed to 244k". The desired result is 2440k.
ASIC mining pool should set difficulty to the base level, which is 16 or 25 whatever, probably several orphaned blocks got ASIC pool confused and used the 3 seconds spike difficulty instead.
Whatever, this tells us that the spike difficulty is only at 0.2 million level, one tenth of dogecoin, or 3% of litecoin difficulty level.
On the otherhand, NewYorkcoin current mining difficulty is 928. The NENG spike difficulty is 263x larger than that of NYC. This issue is not so urgent to fix. We will table it for now
and do a bundled security upgrade in 2019 Q2 together with other issues TBD.