Difficulty is 64681965063
The plant goes negative on power alone by 5/18/2015 after producing $290 worth of BTC per tera-hash.
Consider the ASIC team planning the .5W/GHS chips. Assume those farms can go online in time for 3/31/2015 bump. Difficulty is 383953893734.
That plant will go negative on power in 108 days after producing $24.50 per terahash of bitcoin (7/5/2015)
Something is going to change.
yes and this brings about my point of building the gear already and releasing it into the network slowly.
If you build 300ph for cheap. say 30 million and the power plant will be 90 million to build.
you can add the hash slower not in a big dump. Should be interesting to see if china and russia end up with 2 centers each one with 200-300ph.
Bitmaintech was selling s-1 shipped to the usa as low as 172 usd. lets say it cost them 100 bucks of which 25 was shipping. so 1 piece was 75 usd.
So if a s-3 = 75 usd to build 21 = 10th 210 = 100th
2100 = 1 ph so they can build 1 ph for 2100 x 75 = or 157,500 usd that is 1,575,000 usd for 10ph and 15,750,000 usd for 100 ph
all ball park but not crazy wrong. so making 200 ph may be doable for 30 million. remember they could under clock it and use .5 watts so making gear and storing it is
not as crazy as it seems. the gear alone is just one part of the data center. if you build an s-3 center for 21000 units it is 10 ph
so a 30 ph center is 63,000 units