Whale reduced his MH in half, which he wouldnt do if he had GPU. Current difficulty is 6 times worse. I think he has access to server farm with >5000 servers. Maybe just using idle time to mine. Mining cost is around 25 to 50 cents each, an I think he mined around 50,000 coins. Significant, but there was 10 BTC buy order last night, so 50K DRK isn't so much more than demand at current prices.
My guess is that the whale believes in this coin and didn't want to boost the price with open market order. Maybe determined that it was cheaper to buy server time than to buy in open market.
I am a dolphin, "only" 350 servers, and I came to same conclusion. I had to reduce output to idle time at current difficulty.
James
What CPU type are you using dolphin? What kind of hash rate do you get from something like that? Always been curious. Do you rent them out or just have access to them through a university?
dual Intel Xeon's, various models. About 70% doing minerd. Approx 4000 cores mining on servers got to 100 MH. So around 25kH/core. Is that the same as desktops? I'm managing farm for a guy that somehow has all these servers, so cost is probably close to electricity costs of $30/mo per server, anybody renting or amazon ec2 cant come close to this. I just need to find best ROI for CPUs and unfortunately didn't know about DRK until yesterday. It seems that breakeven for server rental is around difficulty of 40, at 100 I am not even recouping the cost of electricity.
I tried to balance out the 2000MH whale, but all I was able to do was generate a few blocks for the pool I am in. If we can get more hashrate to CHAOSiTEC's pool, it could make it worthwhile for me to get back to 100MH. The problem when going up against the whale is he eats all the blocks dramatically reducing actual blocks generated, unless you hit lucky streak. I didn't want to join the pool with the whale even though it would have boosted my output, its just wrong to make things so lopsided. bad for coin. bad for other pools. Hey, big blue whale, at least balance your MH across all the pools!
James
