This is probably a fork of the original one which is down and available for forking: https://txstreet.com/v/btc https://txstreet.com/d/fork

Imagine giving up privacy only to add a data point... insane.

In Consensus mechanism there's a max retarget defined. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/70d9ec7f3d452789d04dce81dc02db0b3b778bb5/src/pow.cpp#L50 // Limit adjustment step if (nActualTimespan < params.nPowTargetTimespan/4) nActualTimespan = params.nPowTargetTimespan/4; if (nActualTimespan > params.nPowTargetTimespan*4) nActualTimespan = params.nPowTargetTimespan*4; Meaning: difficulty can become at most 4× easier in one retarget or 4× harder in one retarget. So it'll take 3 retargets to achieve 10min timespan: RDTS period | Expected block time | Duration for 2,016 blocks | 1st | 333.3 min | 466.7 days | 2nd | 83.3 min | 116.7 days | 3rd | 20.8 min | 29.2 days | Remaining | ≈10 min | 322 days

this won't be lasting only for "one year" given current difficulty and generously assuming hashrate of the whole ocean pool (~3% of current hashrate): - bip chain will mine 1 block every ~5.5 hours (btw if we take current signalling it is ~1 block per day) - the "one year" period is measured in blocks: 52416 blocks - diff adjustments will happen every 2016 blocks = ~466 days (for first adjustment and it will require multiple adjustments to achieve 10 minutes block interval) - this will lead to a ~2.5 years period until 52416 blocks have passed * assuming constant hashpower of 3%. bip miners have to keep up mining through the first adjustment periods