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Parity syncing pauses for long periods I've been having issues with my parity instance freezing up while syncing. Given enough time it'll generally pick up again but sometimes it will stay where it is for hours. Restarting the instance temporarily solves the problem and it will immediately start syncing like normal. For example, it might sync to the latest block at 15:00:00 and then not pick up anything until 15:30:00 (or a few hours later) and then start syncing until it catches back up to the top. Peers are generally 20+ and absolutely nothing new will show up in the console until parity decides to resume (or I restart) Running off of a windows server instance. Off of an HDD (Not ideal I know but except for these pauses it has been sufficient and the fact that restarting parity fixes the issue makes me believe it is unrelated to the hard drive performance) Running parity 1.10.8 with the cmd: parity.exe --jsonrpc-apis all --cache-size 1024 --db-compaction hdd --tracing off -...

Difference between various blockchain protocols As the developers are constantly using different network protocols of blockchain such as Hyperledger, multichain, Ethereum, Corda, and others. Community will appreciate if the developers & blockchain enthusiasts can pour in some key differences between various types of blockchains as mentioned above. Thanks ! One of the main differences lies with the consensus algorithm the blockchain is using they are all solving the consensus problem but in different ways – Mat0 Jan 24 '17 at 22:02 9 Answers 9 This is a good question, though not one easily addressed with a simple answer. As @Mat0 commented above, one difference is the approaches that the various platforms are using to achieve consensus. Some use p...