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Topic: Why is the difficulty sky rocking (Read 3143 times)

legendary
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September 05, 2013, 12:11:42 PM
#17
malware spreading like shit.

malware that enslaves your pc/apple/game-console being part of giant botnets.
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hero member
Activity: 685
Merit: 500
September 05, 2013, 11:33:43 AM
#16
Why is the difficulty sky rocking like crazy?


Old and new ASICcompany's is starting to get there volums up.
legendary
Activity: 2338
Merit: 2106
September 04, 2013, 09:43:40 AM
#15
Because ASIC companies have shipped a few miners and built more than a few more for themselves. Known and unknown.

+ 1
legendary
Activity: 1420
Merit: 1010
September 04, 2013, 06:43:33 AM
#14
Because ASIC companies have shipped a few miners and built more than a few more for themselves. Known and unknown.

but what about the unknown unknowns??
sr. member
Activity: 457
Merit: 250
August 27, 2013, 04:01:11 PM
#13
Because ASIC companies have shipped a few miners and built more than a few more for themselves. Known and unknown.
hero member
Activity: 490
Merit: 501
August 27, 2013, 02:15:29 PM
#12
In pooled mining if your share goes down you get less reward? Just curious.

in a pool if the pool's hashrate goes up your share of the pool goes down. you get less. if the world hashrate goes up and your pool's doesn't then your pool will make less and so will you.

Not quite.  The only thing that really matters is:  Your hashrate vs Network hash rate.

Beyond that it is only variance, pool reliability, and pool fees.  If the pool you're in is small relative to network hash rate, you'll have more variance (which can be good or bad).  But your expected return is dictated by your percentage of the overall network speed.

My bad, this all gets blury some times.
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
August 27, 2013, 12:07:51 AM
#11
In pooled mining if your share goes down you get less reward? Just curious.

in a pool if the pool's hashrate goes up your share of the pool goes down. you get less. if the world hashrate goes up and your pool's doesn't then your pool will make less and so will you.

Not quite.  The only thing that really matters is:  Your hashrate vs Network hash rate.

Beyond that it is only variance, pool reliability, and pool fees.  If the pool you're in is small relative to network hash rate, you'll have more variance (which can be good or bad).  But your expected return is dictated by your percentage of the overall network speed.
hero member
Activity: 490
Merit: 501
August 26, 2013, 09:29:40 PM
#10
In pooled mining if your share goes down you get less reward? Just curious.

in a pool if the pool's hashrate goes up your share of the pool goes down. you get less. if the world hashrate goes up and your pool's doesn't then your pool will make less and so will you.
legendary
Activity: 3640
Merit: 1571
August 26, 2013, 09:20:23 PM
#9
In pooled mining if your share goes down you get less reward? Just curious.
hero member
Activity: 490
Merit: 501
August 26, 2013, 08:39:13 PM
#8
If you're looking to get into mining, this is one of the basic things you need to know.  The hardware you buy to mine bitcoins will earn less and less everyday.  It's just part of the system.  You have to upgrade regularly to keep pace.

The miners will earn less but not every day.  Bitcoin re-calculates it's difficulty every 2016 blocks.  This is usually around 14 days but has been a few days earlier of late.

not necessarily true. If the hashrate goes up, yes more Blocks will be found than should be, but your share of the pie will go down proportionately. The difficulty just tries to compensate for the current condition where blocks are being found too quick.
donator
Activity: 1055
Merit: 1020
August 25, 2013, 10:01:17 PM
#7
If you're looking to get into mining, this is one of the basic things you need to know.  The hardware you buy to mine bitcoins will earn less and less everyday.  It's just part of the system.  You have to upgrade regularly to keep pace.

The miners will earn less but not every day.  Bitcoin re-calculates it's difficulty every 2016 blocks.  This is usually around 14 days but has been a few days earlier of late.
sr. member
Activity: 406
Merit: 250
August 25, 2013, 09:55:38 PM
#6
The few miners BFL has produced and shipped had a great impact to the diff.
sr. member
Activity: 366
Merit: 258
August 25, 2013, 07:53:26 PM
#5
If you're looking to get into mining, this is one of the basic things you need to know.  The hardware you buy to mine bitcoins will earn less and less everyday.  It's just part of the system.  You have to upgrade regularly to keep pace.
full member
Activity: 281
Merit: 100
August 25, 2013, 06:26:00 PM
#4
Because new, better miners are entering the network, causing the total network power to skyrocket, causing the difficulty to skyrocket.

It's going to keep going up for a long time....But It'll level off eventually
newbie
Activity: 8
Merit: 0
August 25, 2013, 02:40:45 PM
#3
I expect difficulty at 1858 at Jan, 2014

 Sad

legendary
Activity: 1064
Merit: 1000
Bitcoin is too valuable to be used as a currency
August 25, 2013, 02:02:24 PM
#2
ASIC? Cool
newbie
Activity: 8
Merit: 0
August 25, 2013, 02:01:49 PM
#1
Why is the difficulty sky rocking like crazy?

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