The diff increase there is 1% daily.
I'm a PETA investor. not sure what fear, uncertainty or doubt I am throwing into the arena or what benefit I would get from doing so. That term seems overused though.
Yet another gaping hole in your math. The diff is adjusted every 2016 blocks. If you compute the change on a daily basis you have a compounding effect that throws your #s off even more than they already are and it gets progressively worse over time.
The other issue being that you are leaving earnings unaccounted for.
Fud? YES, you are trolling tossing out fud. Its 1 thing to give an unbiased view of something, its another to use wild math and loose interpretations. Maybe you aren't tossing fud intentionally, maybe your just worse at mathematical analysis than you think you are.
As I and others have said before, the difficulty will level off and looks to be doing so temporarily. We are nearing the end of major improvements to chips other than efficiency of design and even that can only go so far.
Is knc still the only one working towards 20nm? Did you know that intel has only recently announced ship dates for 14nm? It will be quite sometime before asic manufacturers can get in on that tech.
1 % daily hashrate increase (sorry, not diff increase) is used in this
simulation purely because it's less than we've seen in the past, more than we'll see in the longer term future outlook by slowdown trend and scaling issues and around the level we've seen recently -- it just gives a number to work with
With 0% change in hashing 2016 blocks should take nominally 14 days, and you would see diff increase (or decrease) anyway even without change in hashrate because of noise. Actually 10% of the time you will see < 1958 blocks and 10% of the time > 2073 so basically every 5 blocks diff can be 2.8% higher or lower than it should. since its set at 2016 regardless
with 1% that will be nominally 12.3 days and diff should be up by ~13%, not 14%.. with 2% hashrate expansion diff typically increase in 11.19 days and diff = 24.8% and so on
It's been said by others that a more accurate starting measure to record the actual hashing rate of the network even on the day diff is first set is to multiple the new difficulty by the square root of the difficulty increase, & thats also accounted for
but that could of set it at 0% or 50% daily increase and it wouldn't have made a difference..because the point isn't to predict the earnings of peta at all or to give an accurate calculation for how much you will actually earn,Y es of course there's certain things not accounted for; type of share payment, eg we could move to f2pool on PPS, instead of PPLNS we could account or discount for mergemining, could account for latency, doa shares, orphans blabla
it's talking about VARIANCE plain and simple and the effects choosing a smaller or larger pool that will have on your probability to earn. I'm well aware that just because a simulation reports X doesn't mean X will happen in reality.
Please stop calling it 'FUD'.. That term is overused. It means fear uncertainty and doubt. Variance is well documented and this has got nothing to do with spreading fear or doubt
As far as i know knc is the only one to look at less than 28nm.. supposedly 1 manufacturer plan at 16nm already for Q4 2015, but i agree after a bulk S3 shipments there should be a little plateu.