But my question is this: Are we seeing the rise of mega-power machines, or just an exponential increase in the number of nodes? That is, are the top-producing machines making leaps in power (over average), or are my machines still about average, just dwarfed by the number of participating machines? Is there any way to tell? (node counts?)
I totally understand that difficulty reflects the state-of-the-art in client khash improvements, but it's clear that my own computers also represent a rapidly diminishing part of the total network generation rate. As the network gets larger, my chance of finding The Block every 10 minutes shrinks. I'm thrilled, not bitter
, but I'm curious to understand what has transpired over the past three weeks to make it so dramatic.Cheers.