When you started mining BTC, difficulty was... - page 2.

Sonny

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Quote from: crazyates on January 26, 2014, 09:41:45 PM

Quote from: bitpop on January 26, 2014, 08:37:05 PM

Quote from: crazyates on January 26, 2014, 02:47:53 PM

About 1.7 million, but then I saw it drop down to ~1.0 million. I could make several BTC a day with just a few GPUs. Been mining pretty much nonstop for the past 2.5 years.

Wow I never knew Bitcoin ever dropped

Whoever was updating this spreadsheet apparently stopped in August of '13, but it's a great glimpse into the history of Bitcoin.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHVRMHpqWUJValI1RlZiaEtCT1RrQmc#gid=0

And yes, the difficulty has dropped several times. It's even dropped multiple times in a row. You gotta remember: The price had risen to $31, and then crashed to $2. People were abandoning Bitcoin, and we lost almost half of the network. Everyone thought it was a fun little hobby that had run it's course and died. Well, everyone except those of us that believed in it, and kept mining. Wink

For the difficulty beyond Aug2013, you may refer to the bottom part of this site.
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

crazyates

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Quote from: bitpop on January 26, 2014, 08:37:05 PM

Quote from: crazyates on January 26, 2014, 02:47:53 PM

About 1.7 million, but then I saw it drop down to ~1.0 million. I could make several BTC a day with just a few GPUs. Been mining pretty much nonstop for the past 2.5 years.

Wow I never knew Bitcoin ever dropped

Whoever was updating this spreadsheet apparently stopped in August of '13, but it's a great glimpse into the history of Bitcoin.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHVRMHpqWUJValI1RlZiaEtCT1RrQmc#gid=0

And yes, the difficulty has dropped several times. It's even dropped multiple times in a row. You gotta remember: The price had risen to $31, and then crashed to $2. People were abandoning Bitcoin, and we lost almost half of the network. Everyone thought it was a fun little hobby that had run it's course and died. Well, everyone except those of us that believed in it, and kept mining. Wink

bitpop

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Quote from: crazyates on January 26, 2014, 02:47:53 PM

About 1.7 million, but then I saw it drop down to ~1.0 million. I could make several BTC a day with just a few GPUs. Been mining pretty much nonstop for the past 2.5 years.

Wow I never knew Bitcoin ever dropped

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

I started august 2012 difficulty was around 2.1 million

Aug 25 2012   2,440,643   11.40%   17,471 GH/s
Aug 12 2012   2,190,866   7.57%   15,683 GH/s

I had about 10gh in gpus in nov of 2012 when diff was .

Nov 12 2012   3,368,767   1.95%   24,115 GH/s

I never came close to roi until coins jumped in price APRIL 2013. I sold a lot of them between 180-220 usd. I have been ahead of the wave since then.

jongameson

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1. i mined one block of 50 in 9 hours on a Pentium 4 3ghz or 8 core AMD

crazyates

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About 1.7 million, but then I saw it drop down to ~1.0 million. I could make several BTC a day with just a few GPUs. Been mining pretty much nonstop for the past 2.5 years.

junk1

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27K
was selling btc at $30 each. Paid off 1 of my 6990s, then btc went to $1.50 and i stopped.

bitpop

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1

BlockChasers

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30k. I started selling everything at 250k and just came back 2 months ago.

mufa23

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I'd fight Gandhi.

What was it towards the end of 2011? Man, i was making a few bitcoins a day with only a few gfx cards...

zhitgeist

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800k or something. Felt high but I managed to mine a coin or two.

Quote from: mtnminer on January 22, 2014, 03:26:29 PM

I started back mining two months ago buying ASICs and am still buying and increasing my Hashing power! I also now transfer out my coins to my wallet!

What ASICs did you buy? Wasn't it a bit late to start mining to make a profit?

undeadbitcoiner

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Undeadbitcoiner Will not DIE until 1BTC=50K

I saw when difficulty was really small or we can say nothing but never gave importance latter on when i started it was growing harder and harder. it was less then 300K

Holm

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Quote from: juggalodarkclow on January 22, 2014, 10:19:02 PM

Around 1.8mil, I was mining with a GeForce210

i am understand, that with my video card, l didn't even start )) only need buy Asic miner((

juggalodarkclow

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Around 1.8mil, I was mining with a GeForce210

Slavboy

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30k i had gtx260 and 3 usb eruptors 333mhz.

BitcoinBarrel

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Fill Your Barrel with Bitcoins!

Around 12,000,000 back in May 2013.

You can see what the difficulty was on certain dates at the bottom of:
http://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Lauda

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Terminated.

7-9mil and I thought, wow I'm too late this is already very high... I was mistaken.

helipotte

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Pick and place? I need more coffee.

845K. I thought a the time this was a *absurdly* high difficulty. Roll Eyes

Mining with one Geforce GTS260. Grin

mtnminer

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When I first started, it was extremely low as was the price. I was mining with my GPU (video card) as my new work I7 pc had an excellent video card, but I only did word processing, web design and database work. So I started mining whit it 24/7 and forgot about it. I lost those bitcoins to 50BTC as I didn't transfer them out. They there were work very little, I wish I had them now!

I started back mining two months ago buying ASICs and am still buying and increasing my Hashing power! I also now transfer out my coins to my wallet!

Mtnminer

kik1977

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Wherever I may roam

Never mined, the first time I saw Bitcoin difficulty was slightly more than 1 million and I thought it was too difficult Sad

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