Hard to know without having all their data about new/replacement orders and running a model, but... they will be shipping new orders as well as replacement orders, so I'd guess the overall effect would be to increase hash rate overall, slowly at first then rapidly, with little or no drop. Thus, my guess is no decrease in difficulty.
Topic: Difficulty drop preceding BFL's ASIC release? - page 2. (Read 3623 times)
IIRC BFL stated that your trade-in only needs to be shipped to them when a replacement (with your name on it) is there ready to go.
At which point I guess it'll be 4-6 weeks 
IIRC BFL stated that your trade-in only needs to be shipped to them when a replacement (with your name on it) is there ready to go.
Yes
I've been thinking about where mining's headed with the (potential) release of BFL ASICs and such.
There's one factor that I don't think has really been discussed: Namely, when will BFL ask for their FPGAs back for trade-ins?
They could potentially be taking back a substantial number of singles and mini-rigs, so if this precedes the full ASIC release, is it not possible that this could knock several percent off the difficulty whilst we wait for their ASICs to hit the market?
There's one factor that I don't think has really been discussed: Namely, when will BFL ask for their FPGAs back for trade-ins?
They could potentially be taking back a substantial number of singles and mini-rigs, so if this precedes the full ASIC release, is it not possible that this could knock several percent off the difficulty whilst we wait for their ASICs to hit the market?
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