In terms of hash rate, right now it's around 60 million ghash. If BFL ships 20,000 Royal Monarchs plus regular Monarchs, the Hashrate will be an additional 32 million. Around a 50% increase in hash rate. If you through all the rest of the companies like KNC, Asicminer, etc. You're going to double the difficulty. But then it gets really difficult to try and double it again because there just aren't that many orders out there. And a lot of miners have switched to Scrypt mining. Plus, a doubling of the hash rate is going to cause older 65nm and below equipment to go offline for those ordinary people who pay their electric bill.
So I would not expect the Hashrate to triple by August. It IS going to spike, and ROI is going to be further out, but I believe it'll ROI.
Sorry, but having BFL and "ship" in the same sentence just doesn't make any sense. We all know how they shipped their first gen ASIC and they already face a 5 months delay just for having chips. Shipping 20k Monarchs will never happen. Never!
Hi Roadstress,
Just letting you know thats a bad comparison
sept - jan 4 months
jan - april 3 months
As I said I got my examples just to have similar dates. There are just 2 more weeks until we will have 4 months (jan-may) and will see, but considering that we only have ~4.x% for 3 months i don't see how can we get close to the 16x for the previous 4 months.