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sr. member
Activity: 1008
Merit: 250
I hope it keeps going.

A lot of miners are selling their gear and moving to trading instead of mining. I plan to carry on doing both!

Makes sense really, you can make more in a good day of trading than a month of mining.
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
The estimate for the next drop seems much lower than I would have thought:

1565638.73312961

Anyone know if such a low estimate is normal for a while after a difficulty change, or has the network really lost that much hashing power?

There's not enough 'sample' data yet.  Even before the difficulty change, a lot of pools were having 'bad luck' and it's been continuing after the change so the average # of blocks being solved per hour was lower than 6 which would make it appear that a ton of hashing power has left.

I'd wait at least another 24 hours to actually get a 'gauge'...

Cheers,
Kermee

Makes sense. For some reason
I thought the estimates were all based on the last X blocks, rather than the blocks since the last difficulty change.
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
The estimate for the next drop seems much lower than I would have thought:

1565638.73312961

Anyone know if such a low estimate is normal for a while after a difficulty change, or has the network really lost that much hashing power?

There's not enough 'sample' data yet.  Even before the difficulty change, a lot of pools were having 'bad luck' and it's been continuing after the change so the average # of blocks being solved per hour was lower than 6 which would make it appear that a ton of hashing power has left.

I'd wait at least another 24 hours to actually get a 'gauge'...

Cheers,
Kermee
legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1004
Firstbits: Compromised. Thanks, Android!
1805700.8361937

Looks like it was a 4.4% drop.

Cheers,
Kermee

The estimate for the next drop seems much lower than I would have thought:

1565638.73312961

Anyone know if such a low estimate is normal for a while after a difficulty change, or has the network really lost that much hashing power?
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
1805700.8361937

Looks like it was a 4.4% drop.

Cheers,
Kermee
hero member
Activity: 628
Merit: 500
Looks like there might be a need for a new site I'm developing!

Here's a snip...



Looks good link us when ready.
newbie
Activity: 24
Merit: 0
Looks like there might be a need for a new site I'm developing!

Here's a snip...

https://i.imgur.com/aqlvu.png
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
Where are you guys getting this info?

I've always blindly regarded bitcoincharts.com's estimations and they're saying
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Estimated   1922292 in 1232 blks

Every site I've seen says relatively the same thing, but none of them say less than 1900000 for next increase.

http://blockexplorer.com/q/estimate

Cheers,
Kermee
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
According to that site, it says next diff will be 1'735'592.65
sr. member
Activity: 294
Merit: 250
Where are you guys getting this info?

I've always blindly regarded bitcoincharts.com's estimations and they're saying
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Estimated   1922292 in 1232 blks

Every site I've seen says relatively the same thing, but none of them say less than 1900000 for next increase.

http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
Where are you guys getting this info?

I've always blindly regarded bitcoincharts.com's estimations and they're saying
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Estimated   1922292 in 1232 blks

Every site I've seen says relatively the same thing, but none of them say less than 1900000 for next increase.
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
1864707.34482746 (-1.27%)

Looks like we might actually drop...

Cheers,
Kermee
newbie
Activity: 45
Merit: 0
i turned my miners of after mybitcoin went down. I had 6 5850ati running for month's I live in England so heat was not so much of a problems ,noise was though and the electric bill. I don't feel its worth the effort anymore. i am gutted that i have lost my bitcoins.
But shit happens and i still think bitcoins are a great idea.
hi
sr. member
Activity: 256
Merit: 250
Lot of people are selling their rigs and cards.  With costs of electricity, undervalued price of btc, all the hackings and just time to keep rigs running--have caused many to say bye bye.  



Where are they selling? Ebay, Craigslist and the Goods section here have not shown a significant uptick in listings for GPUs or rigs.

A cursory check of the Goods section of just this forum shows that 22% of the listings on the front page are for selling rigs or video cards. 

The difficulty does not decrease due to more hashing power being added Smiley
legendary
Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011
Reverse engineer from time to time
A negative difficulty? Whoa, I've been waiting for this for a LOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG time. Now the network won't be able to mine ANY blocks!

You solve more blocks by turning miners OFF!

Corrected title Wink

And new estimate: 1884022.57506567 (-0.25%)

Everyone moving to NMC?

Cheers,
Kermee
Already have
sr. member
Activity: 448
Merit: 250
Lot of people are selling their rigs and cards.  With costs of electricity, undervalued price of btc, all the hackings and just time to keep rigs running--have caused many to say bye bye.  



Where are they selling? Ebay, Craigslist and the Goods section here have not shown a significant uptick in listings for GPUs or rigs.
hi
sr. member
Activity: 256
Merit: 250
Lot of people are selling their rigs and cards.  With costs of electricity, undervalued price of btc, all the hackings and just time to keep rigs running--have caused many to say bye bye.  

sr. member
Activity: 252
Merit: 251
It might finally drop a bit because at current price levels casual miners are out of the game. A typical miner with a 300mhash card is only making $1.6 per day before electricity.. Minus pool luck, exchange rate fluctuations, etc.

Casuals used to be a pretty big part of the mining force.
The only people left are those who will mine regardless of profits or electricity costs, and farms which are still profitable due to the sheer amount of hashing power (worthwhile to keep the machines running)

I'll keep mining even at 3m difficulty because I believe $9 is a grossly undervalued price. It'll eventually go up significantly, no matter if that's 2 weeks, 2 months or 2 years.
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
A negative difficulty? Whoa, I've been waiting for this for a LOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG time. Now the network won't be able to mine ANY blocks!

You solve more blocks by turning miners OFF!

Corrected title Wink

And new estimate: 1884022.57506567 (-0.25%)

Everyone moving to NMC?

Cheers,
Kermee
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
Current Blocks: 139811
Current Difficulty: 1888786.7053531
Next Difficulty At Block: 141119
Next Difficulty In: 1308 blocks
Next Difficulty In About: 1 week, 2 days, 2 hours, 43 minutes, and 36 seconds
Next Difficulty Estimate: 1886589.36771935

Cheers,
Kermee

A negative difficulty? Whoa, I've been waiting for this for a LOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG time. Now the network won't be able to mine ANY blocks! Grin
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