I have to say, if I had a supercomputing cluster ready to mine bitcoins, I wouldn't bring it online in the day or two before a difficulty readjustment. I'd bring it online in the hours _after_ said adjustment. And then probably take it offline as soon as the difficulty readjusted to my cluster.
Of course, that'd probably kill bitcoin, but only eventually.
Topic: Total Network hashing approaching 5 Thash/s! (Read 1163 times)
I thought it was in the 4.X range -- now I look and it's 4.95 -- and TWELVE blocks/hour all the sudden, when for the longest time it's been in the 8 - 9.5 range.
Did some supercomputer come online to mine Bitcoins?
Did some supercomputer come online to mine Bitcoins?
This is hardly surprising. A few days ago $/BTC was 9, then 10 then 12 then 14, 16 and right now it is 18.
Yesterday i've asked the "Leibniz Rechenzentrum" to lend me some calculation time for 3 days.
I *knew* someone was going to throw out a joke along those lines. 
Yea, sorry, I'll turn my FPGA cluster off
I thought it was in the 4.X range -- now I look and it's 4.95 -- and TWELVE blocks/hour all the sudden, when for the longest time it's been in the 8 - 9.5 range.
Did some supercomputer come online to mine Bitcoins?
Did some supercomputer come online to mine Bitcoins?
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