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Topic: Mining difficulty to cross 1 million when? (Read 3276 times)

legendary
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April 30, 2011, 04:45:46 PM
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I've been working on a difficulty model, it needs some work, but I'm predicting November 8, 2011.

nice accuracy ... are you going to publish the model, i'd be interested to see it at least, probably others too?
full member
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I've been working on a difficulty model, it needs some work, but I'm predicting November 8, 2011.
hero member
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The new estimate 146977
newbie
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It looks like some blocks were found in rapid succession right after the difficulty change which caused that high estimate.
JJG
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From Bitcoin Charts:

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Estimated   419656 in 2012 blks

I think it's getting confused because of the recent change in difficulty; it's presumably taking a moving average of the blocks found in some recent time period and then multiplying it by the present difficulty, not a weighted average of the past and present difficulties.  It should even out relatively shortly, depending on the time period it's using to conduct the estimate.

Probably correct. It should be interesting to follow it.
JJG
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From Bitcoin Charts:

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Estimated   419656 in 2012 blks

Although it's early in the period, so it's hard to say how accurate that is. Still doesn't bode well for people who rushed out to buy hardware.
legendary
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lol so this was a pop quiz?
legendary
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When did it cross 10,000?

Correct answer ..... on the log10 plot it took 3-4 months to go from 10,000 to 100,000 so we can expect to cross 1 mill around august I'm picking.
donator
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When did it cross 10,000?
legendary
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Now that difficulty is foregone conclusion to cross 100,000 (who woulda thunk?) please estimate when next ten-folding, i.e. order of magnitude increase, in network hash power and difficulty will occur?

(At current exponential growth rate it will be around 3 months time, Early August, 2011.)
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