Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed!

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Last of the V8s on July 31, 2017, 02:14:13 PM

Bitcoin Difficulty:    860,221,984,436
Estimated Next Difficulty:    917,287,697,771 (+6.63%)
Adjust time:    After 1361 Blocks, About 9.3 days
Hashrate(?):    6,450,431,265 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.5 minutes
6 blocks: 59.0 minutes

Updated:    20:5 (8.4 minutes ago)

The calm before the storm?

Maybe it is much to do about nothing.

I will open a thread to pick tomorrow should be fun or not.

new thread

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20523218

Last of the V8s

legendary

Activity: 1652

Merit: 4392

Be a bank

Bitcoin Difficulty:    860,221,984,436
Estimated Next Difficulty:    917,287,697,771 (+6.63%)
Adjust time:    After 1361 Blocks, About 9.3 days
Hashrate(?):    6,450,431,265 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.5 minutes
6 blocks: 59.0 minutes

Updated:    20:5 (8.4 minutes ago)

The calm before the storm?

cakir

legendary

Activity: 1274

Merit: 1000

★ BitClave ICO: 15/09/17 ★

Too bad I couln't get either... I'm gonna guess next time negative. Because of the 1 august shit & BitcoinCash shit.
Some of the miners will point their haspower into BCC...

edonkey

legendary

Activity: 1150

Merit: 1004

Did you guys see the analysis of changes to the BCC difficulty rules that will allow large pools to manipulate the difficulty backwards, without waiting for the next adjustment period?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6q3joc/a_voice_of_reason_in_the_mining_community/

Assuming this is true, is this vulnerability an honest mistake of the devs who perhaps wanted mining to be effective during their first period as miners bail for the main BTC chain? Because if hash power follows BTC, the block rate for the first adjustment period of BCC would approach infinity, given the original rules.

Or was it intentionally designed to be exploitable by large pools like Antpool to maximize their acquisition of BCC block rewards during the initial pump and dump?

This change to the rules might make it interesting to have a thread to guess the difficulty of BCC. Not that I think it's a good idea to legitimize BCC, but wouldn't it be interesting to watch the difficulty go backwards during an adjustment period?

Regardless, the adjustment period for both chains after August 1st will likely be very interesting...

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: fr4nkthetank on July 28, 2017, 10:57:22 PM

no winner again lol. Hey anybody has ideas on difficulty after the fork ? I mean...depending on BCC price, a bunch of hashrate will cross over...difficulty will be uncertain at the re-adjust, and could cause problems mining blocks, potentially crippling bitcoin if a lot of hashrate leaves ?

Well if a lot leave and 1 fork is 75 percent and the other 25 percent.

It would add Say 5 days to the big fork

And 20 days to the small fork

fr4nkthetank

legendary

Activity: 2294

Merit: 1182

Now the money is free, and so the people will be

no winner again lol. Hey anybody has ideas on difficulty after the fork ? I mean...depending on BCC price, a bunch of hashrate will cross over...difficulty will be uncertain at the re-adjust, and could cause problems mining blocks, potentially crippling bitcoin if a lot of hashrate leaves ?

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

We got close but no cigar
6.92%

Difficulty History

Date   Difficulty   Change   Hash Rate

Jul 27 2017   860,221,984,436   6.92%   6,157,708,817 GH/s

Jul 14 2017   804,525,194,568   13.53%   5,759,015,666 GH/s
My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname under 6.92 by a little .22

7.0 = isoneguy over 6.92 by less .08

8.0 = vapourminer
8.4 = bigsky
8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

10.5 = Alh

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks ended at 516

Bigsky was added as the last player

I will set up a new contest later today.

alh

legendary

Activity: 1846

Merit: 1052

Looks to me like another miss. I guessed way too high, along with several others.....

Bitcoin Difficulty:    804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:    864,794,106,436 (+7.49%)
Adjust time:    After 18 Blocks, About 2.7 hours
Hashrate(?):    6,227,075,973 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.0 minutes
3 blocks: 27.1 minutes
6 blocks: 54.2 minutes

Updated:    2:50 (15.4 minutes ago)

Crazy business indeed!

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 24, 2017, 03:57:12 PM

My gut tells my that by AUG 9th my wedding anniversary will we be over 3000usd a coin.

You got married on my sister's birthday.

8-O

VRobb

hero member

Activity: 1610

Merit: 538

I'm in BTC XTC

Ha ha! Just like the old days! No f'in idea where diff will go with all the roller-coaster ups and downs!! Cheesy

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

with 7.53% and 52 blocks to go isoneguy 7.0 and vapourminer 8.0

have a chance

isoneguy gets 7.0 to 7.099999999xxx

vapourminer gets 8.0 to 8.099999999xxx

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

S7 (and S5/SP20) units aren't much of the total network hashrate any more, they were STILL profitable even during the "close to $2000" dip.
The price doesn't matter during the intervals when there are no miners to buy.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

The key is price of the coin.

My gut tells my that by AUG 9th my wedding anniversary will we be over 3000usd a coin.

If so the game will see more jumps of 5-10% .

As the s-7's all stay alive for mining.

QuintLeo

legendary

Activity: 1498

Merit: 1030

Not sure why we're seeing the current increase, the Bitmain "July" batch looked like it was all shipped out the first 2 weeks or so of the month.
Perhaps Bitfury finally got some chips shipped to a large farm?

leowonderful

legendary

Activity: 1624

Merit: 1130

Bitcoin FTW!

This is going to be damn near 10% if nothing changes. currently estimating about +11% but if blocks keep coming in slow (no blocks in 2+ hrs atm) we may go back to 9-10. These constant difficulty rises are a bit concerning though, my S7 may be coming to its EOL quicker than expected.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer
8.4 = bigsky
8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

10.5 = Alh

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks ended at 516

Bigsky was added as the last player

good luck to all

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Difficulty:   804,525,194,568

Estimated Next Difficulty:   884,786,146,085 (+9.98%)
Adjust time:   After 444 Blocks, About 2.8 days

Hashrate(?):   6,543,426,191 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 8.9 minutes
3 blocks: 26.8 minutes
6 blocks: 53.5 minutes
Updated:   8:50 (5.0 minutes ago)

Bigsky

jr. member

Activity: 57

Merit: 10

Thanks for the thoughts philipma1957

If its not too late, what about 8.4,and if I win
you can donate it to a worthy cause

cheers mate

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

I am going to give a pick to Bigsky

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.20337121

as he made a large error in the thread above.

Not sure if he is online but if it goes past the 516 deadline and he misses the picking I am assigning him one. As I do not like people getting hurt with an honest mistake.

philipma1957

legendary

Activity: 4256

Merit: 8551

'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: philipma1957 on July 23, 2017, 04:35:34 AM

Back to the game Picks are open :

Quote from: vh on June 04, 2017, 05:01:14 PM

Experimental Image Contribution:

Let's see how this holds up over time.
If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil.

we have started at block # 1116

a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff

My pick as usual is the same as always:

-1.1 = philipma1957

2.0 = QuintLeo

5.0 = Last of The V8s
5.4 = tomintx
5.8 = fr4nkthetank

6.1 = cakir

6.7 = actmyname

7.0 = isoneguy

8.0 = vapourminer

8.8 = eDonkey
9.2 = Landy1264

9.5 = CardShare

9.8 = Psi

10.0 = leowonderful

10.2 = HagssFIN

10.5 = Alh

11.2 = Flying Hellfish

12.5 = vh

13.0 = VRobb

13.3 = pusttiu

Picks will end at 516

alh

legendary

Activity: 1846

Merit: 1052

+10.5 = alh

BTC price currently $2773.

Bitcoin Difficulty:    804,525,194,568
Estimated Next Difficulty:    887,140,925,788 (+10.27%)
Adjust time:    After 562 Blocks, About 3.5 days
Hashrate(?):    6,436,675,884 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.0 minutes
3 blocks: 26.9 minutes
6 blocks: 53.8 minutes

Updated:    15:5 (7.0 minutes ago)

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