that is my hope as well - lately the ASIC's prices almost ensure that ROI is never met unless you have almost zero electric cost.
well this was always the concern once enough big money with 2-4 cent power gets into the game.
Then killing off all the gpu profits on other coins with more asics and here we are you need dirt cheap power to survive.
an s9j will earn 225 usd in 331 days and it costs 355
an m10 will earn 938 usd in 484 days and it costs 1800
this is done with 3% jumps 5 cent power
but 3% jumps and 4 cent power
s9j 342 in 422 days
m10 1232 in 574 days
going under 4 cent is not easy . so based on this I believe we will soon see much lower growth back in 2014 we witness close to 2% growth in network over a 13 month time period. not 2% jumps in a difficulty but 2% in a year.
here is the ltc set of jumps from may 17 to oct 1 we are down a lot
hashrate of 261885 gh vs 304,527 gh over 40 jumps
Difficulty History
Date.................Difficulty....Change,,,,Hash Rate
Oct 01 2018 9,146,222 2.65% 261,885 GH/s
Sep 28 2018 8,910,079 -3.47% 255,123 GH/s
Sep 24 2018 9,230,764 5.36% 264,306 GH/s
Sep 21 2018 8,760,775 0.74% 250,848 GH/s
Sep 18 2018 8,696,471 -1.17% 249,007 GH/s
Sep 14 2018 8,799,549 0.16% 251,959 GH/s
Sep 11 2018 8,785,275 1.00% 251,550 GH/s
Sep 07 2018 8,697,984 -1.38% 249,050 GH/s
Sep 04 2018 8,819,878 1.53% 252,541 GH/s
Aug 31 2018 8,686,646 -1.40% 248,726 GH/s
Aug 28 2018 8,809,843 0.66% 252,253 GH/s
Aug 24 2018 8,752,406 -0.85% 250,609 GH/s
Aug 21 2018 8,827,455 4.10% 252,758 GH/s
Aug 17 2018 8,479,765 -4.43% 242,802 GH/s
Aug 14 2018 8,873,191 -9.87% 254,067 GH/s
Aug 10 2018 9,845,135 6.81% 281,897 GH/s
Aug 06 2018 9,217,686 1.86% 263,931 GH/s
Aug 03 2018 9,049,638 -10.13% 259,119 GH/s
Jul 30 2018 10,070,201 -3.63% 288,341 GH/s
Jul 26 2018 10,449,981 9.88% 299,216 GH/s
Jul 23 2018 9,510,707 -5.10% 272,321 GH/s
Jul 20 2018 10,021,646 3.39% 286,951 GH/s
Jul 16 2018 9,693,242 4.13% 277,548 GH/s
Jul 13 2018 9,308,365 -3.88% 266,527 GH/s
Jul 09 2018 9,683,851 4.89% 277,279 GH/s
Jul 06 2018 9,232,469 -6.46% 264,354 GH/s
Jul 02 2018 9,869,969 0.99% 282,608 GH/s
Jun 29 2018 9,773,635 -6.54% 279,850 GH/s
Jun 25 2018 10,457,237 -0.93% 299,423 GH/s
Jun 21 2018 10,554,914 -1.22% 302,220 GH/s
Jun 18 2018 10,684,873 -2.90% 305,941 GH/s
Jun 14 2018 11,003,971 0.35% 315,078 GH/s
Jun 11 2018 10,965,232 0.08% 313,969 GH/s
Jun 07 2018 10,956,272 8.26% 313,712 GH/s
Jun 04 2018 10,120,348 -3.16% 289,777 GH/s
May 31 2018 10,450,677 -4.33% 299,235 GH/s
May 28 2018 10,923,291 -3.40% 312,768 GH/s
May 24 2018 11,307,952 6.08% 323,782 GH/s
May 21 2018 10,659,804 0.23% 305,223 GH/s
May 17 2018 10,635,469 2.06% 304,527 GH/s ---- from bitcoinwisdom
I need to find the charts for btc to show what I mean
Oct 29 2014 we had 309,000 th hash
June 6 2015 we had 301,000 th hash from blockchain charts