Well, it was bound to happen some time. After a run of successes, the RoyaltiesPaymentNet was cursed by high memory usage which killed off many nodes before they could even start, and left the rest pretty much zombified. The spooky thing is it all worked fine on our internal testnets (albeit with some slightly raised memory...

The general idea is that you have lots of ‘normal’ nodes and some which are able to adapt (using a generic algorithm or one of the more recent open ended evolutionary algorithms). This is in some ways an old topic, but the recent design changes, which include instant join of new nodes and a generally quicker time to earning...