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Topic: Litecoin difficulty coaster and the effect on price (Read 593 times)

legendary
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LEALANA Bitcoin Grim Reaper
I still make slightly more mining LTC than BTC, your mileage may vary.

I guess if you don't pay for electricity it's all profit.
legendary
Activity: 1484
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I still make slightly more mining LTC than BTC, your mileage may vary.
legendary
Activity: 2492
Merit: 1473
LEALANA Bitcoin Grim Reaper
Everyone's probably noticed that a bunch of people are only mining LTC every other cycle (3.5 days) to take advantage of lowered difficulties.

What effect do you guys think this has on the coin?

I think it may actually act like the blockchain reward halving, as people mining at the high difficulty are much less likely to dump their LTC into the market (and hence half the LTC is really reaching the market from people dumping at low difficulties).  Certainly it hasn't really hurt litecoin's price, which has been consistently above that of BTC.

Not sure what you mean there. Are you saying that the price of litecoin is more profitable? I disagree given the difficulty skyrocketed. Please explain.
legendary
Activity: 1484
Merit: 1005
Everyone's probably noticed that a bunch of people are only mining LTC every other cycle (3.5 days) to take advantage of lowered difficulties.

What effect do you guys think this has on the coin?

I think it may actually act like the blockchain reward halving, as people mining at the high difficulty are much less likely to dump their LTC into the market (and hence half the LTC is really reaching the market from people dumping at low difficulties).  Certainly it hasn't really hurt litecoin's price, which has been consistently above that of BTC.
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