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Title: Harder Mining - Why the difficulty hikes lately?
Post by: Aztec on March 26, 2013, 10:03:00 PM
I've noticed its getting tougher to mine the last 24 hours. Could BFL be doing some test runs?


Title: Re: Harder Mining - Why the difficulty hikes lately?
Post by: coinomaly on March 26, 2013, 10:05:11 PM
most likely just lots of gpus coming online from the press spike.

http://blockchain.info/pools doesn't show anything too crazy (i wanna know who that 6GH/s pool miner is though in btc guild)


Title: Re: Harder Mining - Why the difficulty hikes lately?
Post by: Korbman on March 26, 2013, 10:08:57 PM
most likely just lots of gpus coming online from the press spike.

http://blockchain.info/pools doesn't show anything too crazy (i wanna know who that 6GH/s pool miner is though in btc guild)

That would be ASICMINER setting up all their ASIC gear: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=99497.0


Title: Re: Harder Mining - Why the difficulty hikes lately?
Post by: TCollar on March 26, 2013, 11:16:15 PM
I've gotten two rigs up in the last 24 hours but it is very likely not me since I assume 114 GH for two would not interfere like a mighty, mighty ASIC based machine would.



Title: Re: Harder Mining - Why the difficulty hikes lately?
Post by: Aztec on March 27, 2013, 12:03:54 AM
It's getting a hammering by somthing