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Topic: ETH Difficulty +11% in less than 24 hours. - page 6. (Read 12935 times)

newbie
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yeah i also think as to do with asic, because with the current profit that ETH is giving it's worth to build dedicated asic for it, this or there is still someone selling gpu privately maybe, they are not really out of stock like many thing

If the ASIC is confirmed, then there will be a change of PoW.
sr. member
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One Chinese risers manufacturer told me, that at this moment they have orders for 200000 (!!!) risers.
And there are more manufacturers than this one...
sr. member
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Screw all this mining ... lets go POS! Problem solved.
full member
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Diff is still skyrocketing

3896897   Block   eu1   June 19th 2017, 9:13:15 am   765.6 T   11.4 TH/s   69s
3901922   Block   eu1   June 20th 2017, 8:09:45 am   847.7 T   11.4 TH/s   35s   213%
NOW
3906485   Block   eu1   June 21st 2017, 6:12:55 am   898.3 T   11.6 TH/s   64s   121%


So

in less than 48 hours difficulty went up +17.33%

Where are these GPUs coming from? AMD made max around 3 million per quarter of the RX series.

Pascal/Nvidia - a look around shows 1060s / 1070s sold out everywhere
hero member
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I wouldn't worry about it, this could be the effect of some pools getting very lucky on blocks.

Ethermine had 107% luck today.
sr. member
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Xtreme Monster
That must be nvidia doing their testing on eth networking. You ready? hehe

I was thinking that to there miner only GPU is due out in two days .. on the 23rd or about .... keep watching the DIFF it may drop ...

The way things are, it could be anything really, for money, people do all sorts of things. Let's hope is Nvidia doing their testing.
legendary
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That must be nvidia doing their testing on eth networking. You ready? hehe

I was thinking that to there miner only GPU is due out in two days .. on the 23rd or about .... keep watching the DIFF it may drop ...
sr. member
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Xtreme Monster
in less than 48 hours difficulty went up +17.33%

Definitely, it's impossible to put all these hardware together and just turn on, it takes time and effort and every day the hashrate increases, not all at once in 2 days. This is not looking good.

Price is very determinant to build ASICS, lets see how this will go, if is indeed ASICS then looks like ETH value will crash to hell.
legendary
Activity: 3808
Merit: 1723
Diff is still skyrocketing

3896897   Block   eu1   June 19th 2017, 9:13:15 am   765.6 T   11.4 TH/s   69s
3901922   Block   eu1   June 20th 2017, 8:09:45 am   847.7 T   11.4 TH/s   35s   213%
NOW
3906485   Block   eu1   June 21st 2017, 6:12:55 am   898.3 T   11.6 TH/s   64s   121%


So

in less than 48 hours difficulty went up +17.33%

Where are these GPUs coming from? AMD made max around 3 million per quarter of the RX series.
hero member
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Eloncoin.org - Mars, here we come!
@dbc23
 - very good point. Funny thing is that back in the 90's ALL major video cards HAD slots for ADDING ONBOARD memory. This is wise in terms of card usability aka lifespan, but... DICKS that invented term "goods lifespan" have different point of view on it, thats why no more memory add-on slots. Bizniz.. MORE sales - MORE profit, as simple as that.

However, this has nothing to do with the facts about ETH, that is all in the numbers.  Do your research, look at the pool size and numbers and answer the question for yourself, these are the actions of a responsible person in the crypto game and we all do this. 
 
full member
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To Hash or not to Hash, that's what the question
@dbc23
 - very good point. Funny thing is that back in the 90's ALL major video cards HAD slots for ADDING ONBOARD memory. This is wise in terms of card usability aka lifespan, but... DICKS that invented term "goods lifespan" have different point of view on it, thats why no more memory add-on slots. Bizniz.. MORE sales - MORE profit, as simple as that.
hero member
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A true conesuer of ETH would have known that there are ASIC ETH flashes that are out there and they have been for six months or more.  With the right ASIC you simply flash in the new OS and it can handle its previous algos, plus the ability to hard mine and mint, not a tech revolution, been there the whole time.
hero member
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legendary
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~Full-Time Minter since 2016~
Holy carp 11%+ in one go!

It would be logical to assume at this point an ASIC, there are and will be other future dagger coins, even once ETH goes PoS

Crazy times gentlemen, think ill stop buying ti's for a while see where mining goes in next 30 days or so, thx for the info man!

EDIT: Sorry was late to the game posting, and as many people have said, its not ASIC..

Original:

Not sure about ASIC since it takes a lot of development time, resources and money.  It doesn't *seem* to make sense since at some
point ETC will go to POS, granted starting out at %1 but will go over time, making miners obsolete at some point.  (still down the road).

However anything is possible Smiley


i would argue you never once mentioned "Dagger".  it's like the sole reasoning it wouldn't happen is ETH/ETC are the only coins to mine if one had an asic?
There will be coins we dont even KNOW of yet that use dagger and are huge, some would say Ubiq and Musiccoin could be long term right NOW even
There's no doubt to me a dagger ASIC would be profitable, at this point they could even tap out a batch of chips i bet .

Course, yes, us little guys its all speculation, "anything IS possible" Smiley



Dagger Hashimoto is memory-hard, which means that ASIC and FPGA gain no advantage because everyone is limited by the speed of RAM.

Because the primary determinant of hardness is memory, and not computation, specialized hardware has only a tiny advantage; even an optimal Dagger mining ASIC would have little to offer over a hobbyist purchasing hundreds of gigabytes of memory cards off the shelf and plugging them into a medium-power GPU.


ohh, i see, ya im not an ETH miner really so my knowledge obviously is less than yours on the subject i see haha
i was speaking strickly speculative , so i cant argue with those hard facts ;p
sr. member
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Holy carp 11%+ in one go!

It would be logical to assume at this point an ASIC, there are and will be other future dagger coins, even once ETH goes PoS

Crazy times gentlemen, think ill stop buying ti's for a while see where mining goes in next 30 days or so, thx for the info man!

EDIT: Sorry was late to the game posting, and as many people have said, its not ASIC..

Original:

Not sure about ASIC since it takes a lot of development time, resources and money.  It doesn't *seem* to make sense since at some
point ETC will go to POS, granted starting out at %1 but will go over time, making miners obsolete at some point.  (still down the road).

However anything is possible Smiley


i would argue you never once mentioned "Dagger".  it's like the sole reasoning it wouldn't happen is ETH/ETC are the only coins to mine if one had an asic?
There will be coins we dont even KNOW of yet that use dagger and are huge, some would say Ubiq and Musiccoin could be long term right NOW even
There's no doubt to me a dagger ASIC would be profitable, at this point they could even tap out a batch of chips i bet .

Course, yes, us little guys its all speculation, "anything IS possible" Smiley



Dagger Hashimoto is memory-hard, which means that ASIC and FPGA gain no advantage because everyone is limited by the speed of RAM.

Because the primary determinant of hardness is memory, and not computation, specialized hardware has only a tiny advantage; even an optimal Dagger mining ASIC would have little to offer over a hobbyist purchasing hundreds of gigabytes of memory cards off the shelf and plugging them into a medium-power GPU.

Is it possible this is something that's being done?  I'm thinking of system memory daughterboards.  Would it be possible to set up a system with several 100 gigs of system memory and use either xeons or offload processing to a GPU and hash that way with Dagger? 

I realize latency would become a serious problem dealing with the system bus and having to hold and communicate between system memory on then daughterboards and the GPU/CPU, but if it's truly a matter of AMOUNT of memory then this sounds like it might be a way to build a massive daggerhash machine.

I'm guessing memory bandwidth and latency plays a major role though (from my limited BIOS tweaking experience) in which case this might have to do with some early Vega cards coming online, I think they're all using HBM if I'm not mistaken.

Does look, if these numbers are all correct that something more than a large GPU shipment suddenly coming online, this looks like something of a different kind.
legendary
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The devs need to do something quick with this ice-age because there is crazy backlogs going on with the ETH blockchain. Look at Bittrex


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hero member
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Holy carp 11%+ in one go!

It would be logical to assume at this point an ASIC, there are and will be other future dagger coins, even once ETH goes PoS

Crazy times gentlemen, think ill stop buying ti's for a while see where mining goes in next 30 days or so, thx for the info man!

EDIT: Sorry was late to the game posting, and as many people have said, its not ASIC..

Original:

Not sure about ASIC since it takes a lot of development time, resources and money.  It doesn't *seem* to make sense since at some
point ETC will go to POS, granted starting out at %1 but will go over time, making miners obsolete at some point.  (still down the road).

However anything is possible Smiley


i would argue you never once mentioned "Dagger".  it's like the sole reasoning it wouldn't happen is ETH/ETC are the only coins to mine if one had an asic?
There will be coins we dont even KNOW of yet that use dagger and are huge, some would say Ubiq and Musiccoin could be long term right NOW even
There's no doubt to me a dagger ASIC would be profitable, at this point they could even tap out a batch of chips i bet .

Course, yes, us little guys its all speculation, "anything IS possible" Smiley



Dagger Hashimoto is memory-hard, which means that ASIC and FPGA gain no advantage because everyone is limited by the speed of RAM.

Because the primary determinant of hardness is memory, and not computation, specialized hardware has only a tiny advantage; even an optimal Dagger mining ASIC would have little to offer over a hobbyist purchasing hundreds of gigabytes of memory cards off the shelf and plugging them into a medium-power GPU.
legendary
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~Full-Time Minter since 2016~
Holy carp 11%+ in one go!

It would be logical to assume at this point an ASIC, there are and will be other future dagger coins, even once ETH goes PoS

Crazy times gentlemen, think ill stop buying ti's for a while see where mining goes in next 30 days or so, thx for the info man!

EDIT: Sorry was late to the game posting, and as many people have said, its not ASIC..

Original:

Not sure about ASIC since it takes a lot of development time, resources and money.  It doesn't *seem* to make sense since at some
point ETC will go to POS, granted starting out at %1 but will go over time, making miners obsolete at some point.  (still down the road).

However anything is possible Smiley



i would argue you never once mentioned "Dagger".  it's like the sole reasoning it wouldn't happen is ETH/ETC are the only coins to mine if one had an asic?
There will be coins we dont even KNOW of yet that use dagger and are huge, some would say Ubiq and Musiccoin could be long term right NOW even
There's no doubt to me a dagger ASIC would be profitable, at this point they could even tap out a batch of chips i bet .

Course, yes, us little guys its all speculation, "anything IS possible" Smiley

sp_
legendary
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Team Black developer
Block 3000000, approx ETH supply 87962556, time '2017-01-16 00:38:33.067775' blocktime 14.86
Block 3500000, approx ETH supply 90612556, time '2017-04-11 18:09:34.273529' blocktime 15.27
Block 4000000, approx ETH supply 93262556, time '2017-08-15 18:20:24.642729' blocktime 30.01

...

Difficulty up, no security, price down.

With the Metropolis release these block times will be fixed back to 14 seconds however the Ethereum foundation devs are delaying the release as late as possible to control the supply.

Out of budget, They need an iceage to swallow the emission.
hero member
Activity: 552
Merit: 500
Holy carp 11%+ in one go!

It would be logical to assume at this point an ASIC, there are and will be other future dagger coins, even once ETH goes PoS

Crazy times gentlemen, think ill stop buying ti's for a while see where mining goes in next 30 days or so, thx for the info man!

EDIT: Sorry was late to the game posting, and as many people have said, its not ASIC..

Original:

Not sure about ASIC since it takes a lot of development time, resources and money.  It doesn't *seem* to make sense since at some
point ETC will go to POS, granted starting out at %1 but will go over time, making miners obsolete at some point.  (still down the road).

However anything is possible Smiley
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