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Title: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 14, 2017, 06:43:37 PM No winner I rolled over the 2ltc. and the compac stick.
Link to last contest. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1999606.0 Okay no one hit this. So prize is raise to 2.0 ltc and a sidehack 1 chip usb compac. Locking for the time being will fill in the rules in about 12 hours Link to last threads https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1972166.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1932641.msg19189742#msg19189742 Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. when it reaches 1116 picks will start when it reaches 516-- picks will end---- when it reaches 0 winner will be found or not ################################## @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ********************************************** Difficulty History Date.......................Difficulty............Change......Hash Rate Jul 14 2017 804,525,194,568 13.53% 5,759,015,666 GH/s Jul 02 2017 708,659,466,230 -0.43% 5,072,782,052 GH/s Jun 17 2017 711,697,198,174....... 4.85% .... 5,094,526,985 GH/s May 23 2017 595,921,917,085 6.42% 4,265,775,241 GH/s May 10 2017 559,970,892,891 7.28% 4,008,427,786 GH/s Apr 27 2017 521,974,519,554 0.22% 3,736,439,151 GH/s Apr 13 2017 520,808,749,422 4.24% 3,728,094,244 GH/s Mar 30 2017 499,635,929,817 5.03% 3,576,533,297 GH/s Mar 17 2017 475,705,205,062 3.24% 3,405,230,497 GH/s Mar 03 2017 460,769,358,091 4.54% 3,298,315,540 GH/s Feb 18 2017 440,779,902,287 4.41% 3,155,225,442 GH/s Feb 04 2017 422,170,566,884 7.43% 3,022,014,630 GH/s Jan 22 2017 392,963,262,344 16.64% 2,812,940,600 GH/s Jan 10 2017 336,899,932,796 6.05% 2,411,623,656 GH/s So 1 compac usb stick from sidehack If you are overseas I will spring for the shipping of the compac stick. Note the compact stick is the 1 chip version but as always it is fun to play with it. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 14, 2017, 06:46:13 PM Rules
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1484047.msg14964950#msg14964950 I am checking this list of rules from older thread 1)you must have been on this site since April 1st 2017 you must have at least 30 posts. -- 2)I will check you out if you are new and decide if you can play. 3)you get one play per adjustment. which must be yours alone, in proper format and can not be changed. 4)Do not pick someone else's number If you do I will assign a number and that will not be changed 5) picks start at: Bitcoin Difficulty: Estimated Next Difficulty: Adjust time: Block 1116 Hashrate(?): Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 3 blocks: 6 blocks: Updated: 6) picks end at Bitcoin Difficulty: Estimated Next Difficulty: Adjust time: 516 Hashrate(?): Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 3 blocks: 6 blocks: Updated: 7) since this is a free contest I make all decisions if there are any issues or problems. 8 ) note the change picks start later and end late in the hope of helping a person to pick a winner. 9) format is below and this is the contest picks from 2016 in code as low as you want -1.0 -0.9 -0.8 -0.7 -0.6 -0.5 -0.4 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 0.0 +0.1 +0.2 +0.3 +0.4 +0.5 +0.6 +0.7 +0.8 +0.9 +1.0 to as high as you want Code: -1.2 = philipma1957 >>>> I always pick this number Code: Difficulty History 10) Finally If I missed anything I will be the sole decider as to what is fair. Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: edonkey on July 14, 2017, 09:54:36 PM I have my SHA256 miners on NiceHash with a profitability value. That last difficulty increase was so high that my miners switched away to a backup pool.
It's days like this that I wish NiceHash had listed to my request to optionally specify the profitability as a delta percentage rather than a fixed value. Let's all hope the next jump goes easier on us... Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: QuintLeo on July 15, 2017, 01:32:45 AM How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability?
Is that SHA256 specific, or does it apply to all of their ASIC-based pools (I seem to have missed it in the Scrypt instructions). Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 15, 2017, 03:47:24 AM How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability? Is that SHA256 specific, or does it apply to all of their ASIC-based pools (I seem to have missed it in the Scrypt instructions). On the s-9. The third line the password line .42 Would be the setting As .33 is the correct rate If no one is paying .42 it drops to second choice If you get paid the .42 it is like 135 percent. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: alh on July 15, 2017, 08:58:41 AM For what it's worth, BTC price has declined now to $2051. I would think that if that persists, that the increase in hashrate will slow. There's quite a lag in hashrate changes, BTC price can literally "turn on a dime". Maybe a decline in BTC price coupled with good sized difficulty jump will bring things back closer to where they were back in the first 2 months of the year.
Just my $.02. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 15, 2017, 09:20:00 AM For what it's worth, BTC price has declined now to $2051. I would think that if that persists, that the increase in hashrate will slow. There's quite a lag in hashrate changes, BTC price can literally "turn on a dime". Maybe a decline in BTC price coupled with good sized difficulty jump will bring things back closer to where they were back in the first 2 months of the year. Just my $.02. I cashed 4 coins at about 9550. I could buy them back at 8300. this chart shows a drop the gray line is clearly under the line. which means negative. I would not mind a further price drop. say 1600 a coin. https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500110103 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: edonkey on July 15, 2017, 02:45:07 PM How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability? Is that SHA256 specific, or does it apply to all of their ASIC-based pools (I seem to have missed it in the Scrypt instructions). Phil already answered, but just to clarify this is a pool specific setting. For Nicehash it's the "p" option in the password field. For example, here's how I currently have Nicehash set up as my first pool (with a different receive address): Code: stratum+tcp://sha256.usa.nicehash.com:3334#xnsub The above 0.3282 number works out to about 5% over the current SHA256 earnings. If Nicehash falls below that, it appears as dead to the miner and the miner switches to the next pool. The pain in the ass part is that they don't allow me to specify a percentage. It's only a fixed number. So when there's a difficulty change, I recompute the profitability number and restart my miners with it. I got tired of computing the profitability number by hand (using a mining calculator) so I now do it automatically using some Javascript in a Google Sheets spreadsheet. If anyone is interested, here's the GitHub page with the scripts: https://github.com/edonkeycoin/gsbitcoinutils I'm a little unhappy with the performance of blockr.io though (which I used for the scripts). I might switch APIs if I get pissed off enough. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 16, 2017, 09:45:47 AM Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 897,679,492,842 (+11.58%) Adjust time: After 1738 Blocks, About 11.8 days >>>> WE START AT 1116 Hashrate(?): 5,567,284,095 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.8 minutes 3 blocks: 29.3 minutes 6 blocks: 58.6 minutes Updated: and price is dropping like a rock 1935 at coinbase. >:( Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: alh on July 16, 2017, 08:04:58 PM A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880.
Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies"). Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 16, 2017, 10:02:12 PM A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880. Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies"). I am happy I sold four for 9550 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: QuintLeo on July 17, 2017, 09:34:41 AM A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880. Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies"). I am happy I sold four for 9550 I'm happy I moved almost everything off Nicehash - though only had a couple old low-level rigs and my Scrypt stuff pointed there. Litecoin is doing quite well compared to Bitcoin the last couple weeks, still only down 20% more or less on $ terms from it's peak 3ish weeks back and seems inclined to climb to a higher level vs. Bitcoin than it's seen in years. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 17, 2017, 12:29:18 PM A few hours later, on price.bitcoin.com: $1880. Pretty much a straight line down from $2600 on July 5th. (excluding small and brief "rallies"). I am happy I sold four for 9550 I'm happy I moved almost everything off Nicehash - though only had a couple old low-level rigs and my Scrypt stuff pointed there. Litecoin is doing quite well compared to Bitcoin the last couple weeks, still only down 20% more or less on $ terms from it's peak 3ish weeks back and seems inclined to climb to a higher level vs. Bitcoin than it's seen in years. right now my mining has been reduced I sold a lot of gear. I now have 56th for BTC down from 70th I have 4-5k sol for ZEC down from 13k sol I have 150 mh for Nist5 I have a tiny little x-11 miner with 5mh that uses 12 watts or so I am holding a lot of cash more then anything else. If everything crashes I can buy cheap gpus or avalon 741's or cheap btc. If everything rallies I can earn with the gear I have. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: QuintLeo on July 17, 2017, 11:35:32 PM I have a tiny little x-11 miner with 5mh that uses 12 watts or so Pinaldea (sp?) USB-based thing where the fan is about as big as the actual miner? Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 12:14:59 AM I have a tiny little x-11 miner with 5mh that uses 12 watts or so Pinaldea (sp?) USB-based thing where the fan is about as big as the actual miner? yeah shaped like a cube makes money I mine it next to the compac sticks and I mine cpu mining for hodl or cryptonight along with 1 gpu for zcash. The rig has 4 separate things going ;D Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: leowonderful on July 18, 2017, 10:46:45 AM I recall buying one of the PinIdea USB miners for about fifty bucks this year and then forgetting about it and eventually losing it. They sure are quiet and reliable, and the only X11 machines I ever got at a decent price. Perhaps I'll find it this week ;D
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: isoneguy on July 18, 2017, 01:59:25 PM oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 03:48:12 PM oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs. you sold it to me 4 or 5 months ago! they turned out okay running it with other miners it makes 10-15 cents a day Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: leowonderful on July 18, 2017, 04:28:22 PM On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to :) profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 04:34:47 PM On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to :) profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G. I will toss it in as a prize here on the next round. problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: vapourminer on July 18, 2017, 06:10:46 PM problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc. thats a shame. old thread was mainly for fun even with the prize. lots of chatter etc. hope this ones goes in that direction too. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: Last of the V8s on July 18, 2017, 06:14:17 PM On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to :) profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G. I will toss it in as a prize here on the next round. problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc. but i reckon the prizes are fine maybe if it's not as popular as in its heyday, allow us to pick more of a range - wasn't it like that at one point? if someone is seen to win a prize, the contest may become more popular again... Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 07:52:55 PM On another note Bitmain seems to have launched the D3 X11 miner (15GH/1200W) selling for $2600 and shipping in September. Perhaps you could get another X11 miner for a decent price if you wanted to :) profitability calculators show this thing making almost $100k a year but it will likely crash with iBeLink also releasing their DM11G. I will toss it in as a prize here on the next round. problem is the prizes are too small since we don't get many picking for free shot at sidehack compac and 2 ltc. but i reckon the prizes are fine maybe if it's not as popular as in its heyday, allow us to pick more of a range - wasn't it like that at one point? if someone is seen to win a prize, the contest may become more popular again... yeah we had a bigger range like .2 vs .1 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: isoneguy on July 18, 2017, 08:44:25 PM oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs. you sold it to me 4 or 5 months ago! I know, I regret every moment of that...but I try to be a man of my word. If you ever want to sell it back...just let me know :p How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability? On the s-9. The third line the password line .42 Would be the setting As .33 is the correct rate If no one is paying .42 it drops to second choice If you get paid the .42 it is like 135 percent. FFS someone needs to write a book about this stuff. Also, thanks for being such a wealth of knowledge...and sharing the wealth. :o Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: leowonderful on July 18, 2017, 11:48:07 PM Back on topic, hashrate seems to be going up again and we may well see another +10% rise in difficulty. As difficulty continues to rise I'm wondering whether Bitmain is doing R&D on a new chip or if they plan on continuing S9 production as they are more focused on alts.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 11:51:53 PM oh man leo, I need one of those for every one of my rigs. you sold it to me 4 or 5 months ago! I know, I regret every moment of that...but I try to be a man of my word. If you ever want to sell it back...just let me know :p How do you get your ASIC miners to switch pools based on profitability? On the s-9. The third line the password line .42 Would be the setting As .33 is the correct rate If no one is paying .42 it drops to second choice If you get paid the .42 it is like 135 percent. FFS someone needs to write a book about this stuff. Also, thanks for being such a wealth of knowledge...and sharing the wealth. :o They are making a fortune on hashnest s-7. look what they charge for an s-7 for power https://i.imgur.com/x8lvaaQ.png look what they charge for the x-9 https://i.imgur.com/X0PsREB.png Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: TheYankeesWin! on July 18, 2017, 11:53:19 PM So phil you think they are mining s-9's and have no s-7's at all?
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 18, 2017, 11:55:36 PM So phil you think they are mining s-9's and have no s-7's at all? No I think they replace the dead s-7s with s-9's and sell the hash as s-7 which make them more money. I think no one can prove it. But I think they do this. So they have zero reason to develop the s-11 at this moment. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: QuintLeo on July 19, 2017, 06:04:41 AM I suspect they aren't bothering to replace dying S7 units as such, just let them die and convert the "slot" into a S9 slot - and modify the available totals accordingly.
Isn't there an option when your "Hashnest S7" becomes unprofitable for long enough that they shut it and your contract down and give you the option to buy the machine? There is NO new tech available for Bitmain to "do R&D on a new chip" WITH, that is going to provide a significant improvement in performance. They're AT the current semiconductor state-of-the-art so it's going to be a year or two AT LEAST before such a new process node is AVAILABLE to design for. People need to understand that the days of "a new generation in a year or less of miner" CAN'T HAPPEN any more, the only reason that was possible for so long was that miners weren't using the state-of-the-art prior to the S9 (and the same-gen Bitfury chip and some others since then) so they had room TO improve a lot more rapidly. At this point, a new generation every 3-5 years is going to be the norm, and expecting anything different is a pipe dream with no basis in reality. Given that both IBM and Intel have already stated that Silicon has reached "the end of the road" at 7-10 nm (IBM's 7nm experimental work uses a HYBRID Silicon/Germanium wafer not the pure Silicon wafers most semiconductors have been made on for the last 30 years or so), it seems VERY likely that Moore's Law is finally about to break and it's going to be quite a bit longer between generations after folks get to 7nm. It's not so much that Bitmain isn't interested in developing a "S11" model, it's that they CAN'T for a while longer. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: vapourminer on July 19, 2017, 10:54:12 AM Given that both IBM and Intel have already stated that Silicon has reached "the end of the road" at 7-10 nm (IBM's 7nm experimental work uses a HYBRID Silicon/Germanium wafer not the pure Silicon wafers most semiconductors have been made on for the last 30 years or so), it seems VERY likely that Moore's Law is finally about to break and it's going to be quite a bit longer between generations after folks get to 7nm. might be interesting once the fabs move to a new process entirely (hybrid or whatever, ie not silicon based any more) as that will leave the current state of the art silicon fabs with lots of exess capacity. i cant see all those old tech fabs shutting down (or converting as that would mean basically all new equipment for the new process, so new fabs may be built instead, or existing ones being expanded, leave most old tech in place as its still useful) as lots of mainstream chips will still use them for run of the mill parts that dont need the extreme speed/power savings that the new process will offer. but those run of the mill chips wont take much capacity. some asic makers will move to the new process but they will again be competing with the big boys and their cost will be substantial, amounting to what we more or less have now.. small runs, high price, low availability.. although they will be faster and more power efficient. so not a lot will be made at 1st. so current fabs that have 90%+ of their capacity currently used by apple/amd/samsung/arm whatever will now be able to offer large runs of custom wafers at much cheaper prices. this may let asic makers (perhaps new ones as well at the few we have now) churn out "old tech" asic chips at much lower cost and much higher volume, as right now asic makers are competing for fab capacity. at the transition to a new process apple/samsung etc will move to those, leaving old fabs with excess capacity. this may drive the prices of asics down to the point where asic miners are much more affordable and available. power efficiency will not be much better but the absurd cost of the chips will be lower, allowing new players into the the asic party. this would mean lots more asics on the network. difficulty would start to climb again just from the sheer numbers of new machines based on silicon, which should still be competitive if the price is right.. current farms are mainly limited by price per unit and power capacity. lower the price per unit and those who are not hugely power limited (small farms/home/hobby miners) can start to build out bigger farms. for example i have extra power capacity (125 spare amps with no upgrades) but cost of asics (mainly), plus somewhat limited availability prevents me from buying. after all what keeps most asic miners in check besides power? price and availability. fix those and watch out. just me guessing out loud, love to hear of any other thoughts on this. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 19, 2017, 01:41:36 PM @ vapourminer you have a good point. I have seen the bitfury chip demo working at 0.06 watts.
So if chips become throw away cheap.. the s-11 with s-9 chips could be developed. Change clocks and volts dropping the .11 - .13 power to .07-.09 @QuintLeo if the s-7 become 101% cost for 30 days they will power it off and I think you could buy it. right now it is 55% cost to run it. My feelings are if an s-7 dies they put in an s-9 and sell the hash at s-7 prices. No one audits this and the only way that get caught is every s-7 hash owner says send me my s-7. Here is another interesting thing they will be doing. https://www.hashnest.com/notifications/18?ticket=ST-9388557-VfsU1HCA1GbWxczqPjVy-passport.bitmain.com All users on hashnest, please be advised below. To avoid risk of the possible bitcoin fork, hashnest decide to stop all the services for bitcoin wallet , hashrate market and PACMIC contracts payback during 2017/07/31 8:00-2017/08/03 8:00 beijing time. Back to the game: Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we start at block # 1116 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: fr4nkthetank on July 19, 2017, 06:56:36 PM Innosilicon is coming out with a x11 miner also....cheaper than bitmain I think and more powerful. everything is a pre-sale though, including bitmain.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: philipma1957 on July 19, 2017, 07:27:36 PM Innosilicon is coming out with a x11 miner also....cheaper than bitmain I think and more powerful. everything is a pre-sale though, including bitmain. Simply shows that asic builders have no loyalty to any asic coin.. As Donald would say: " sad so sad" Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are yet to open Post by: QuintLeo on July 19, 2017, 10:39:47 PM Innosilicon is coming out with a x11 miner also....cheaper than bitmain I think and more powerful. everything is a pre-sale though, including bitmain. No price announced yet. Only preliminary stats - and after the A4 I'm inclined to wait for an actual PRODUCTION unit before I believe posted stats. The S9 ALREADY HAD ISSUES when Bitmain tried to run it at too low a voltage in the early batches. That's WHY you don't see them pushing "14+ Gh/s" batches any more. They'd have to drop the hashrate a TON to get noticeably under the current efficiency level - and they're probably call it the "S9 lite" or "S9+" not the S11 if they did do something like that. As long as foundry space is booked MONTHS AHEAD on the very few 14/16nm production lines, and those lines are running flat out, chips won't get "throw away cheap" on those nodes. That doesn't look likely to change 'till the NEXT generation techs are in production. There is the question of how many of the current 14/16nm fabs will stay on that process, and for how long, vs the possibility of one or more of them moving to a new process. I'd bet the current lines stay put for a while though - more likely lines making ancient process will get rebuilt for the brand new process, or new lines built for it instead. Cost to produce a chip won't drop for quite a while though, only the AVAILABILITY will increase when some stuff starts moving to new process node(s). Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 12:27:14 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: [/quote] and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always -1.1 = philipma1957 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: Last of the V8s on July 20, 2017, 12:58:21 PM +5.0 = Last of the V8s
pls & ty Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: CardShare on July 20, 2017, 01:09:41 PM Could I make a pick of
+9.5 Was unsure what else has already been picked Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 01:21:53 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always -1.1 = philipma1957 5.0 = Last of The V8s 9.5 = CardShare Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: fr4nkthetank on July 20, 2017, 01:32:13 PM 5.8 = fr4nkthetank
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 03:06:00 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: [/quote] and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always -1.1 = philipma1957 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 9.5 = CardShare Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: cakir on July 20, 2017, 03:22:15 PM Hi, It has been long time, You've been giving 0.1 btc back then...
I would like to select +6.1 please. Thanks a lot! Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: vapourminer on July 20, 2017, 07:12:15 PM 8.0 = vapourminer
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: VRobb on July 20, 2017, 07:20:32 PM +13.0 = VRobb
And thanks again to philip for being such an enabler to all us degenerates! :D Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: cakir on July 20, 2017, 09:18:09 PM Hi, It has been long time, You've been giving 0.1 btc back then... (As I said earlier, It has been long and I've forgot how to pick, I didn't want to edit, so I quoted, I'm not changing it.)I would like to select +6.1 please. Thanks a lot! +6.1 = cakir Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 10:03:38 PM Back to the game Picks are open :
Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,312,295,494 (+7.43%) Adjust time: After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days Hashrate(?): 6,392,376,751 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.9 minutes 6 blocks: 57.7 minutes and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 8.0 = vapourminer 9.5 = CardShare 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: leowonderful on July 20, 2017, 10:25:41 PM +10
Huge and, in my opinion, unnecessarily big reward this round, but I would also love to see more picks in the future! I smell a big pump in diff this round. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 11:00:13 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,312,295,494 (+7.43%) Adjust time: After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days Hashrate(?): 6,392,376,751 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.9 minutes 6 blocks: 57.7 minutes and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 8.0 = vapourminer 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: QuintLeo on July 20, 2017, 11:21:36 PM 2.0 = QuintLeo
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 20, 2017, 11:28:45 PM Back to the game Picks are open :
Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,312,295,494 (+7.43%) Adjust time: After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days Hashrate(?): 6,392,376,751 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.9 minutes 6 blocks: 57.7 minutes and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 8.0 = vapourminer 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 coins jumped over 2900 briefly! Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: actmyname on July 21, 2017, 12:24:32 AM 6.7 = actmyname
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 21, 2017, 03:43:05 AM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,312,295,494 (+7.43%) Adjust time: After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days Hashrate(?): 6,392,376,751 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.9 minutes 6 blocks: 57.7 minutes and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 8.0 = vapourminer 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 coins jumped over 2900 briefly! Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: Landy1264 on July 21, 2017, 07:00:08 AM 9.2 = Landy1264
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 21, 2017, 11:22:50 AM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,312,295,494 (+7.43%) Adjust time: After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days Hashrate(?): 6,392,376,751 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.9 minutes 6 blocks: 57.7 minutes and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 8.0 = vapourminer 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 coins jumped over 2900 briefly! Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: QuintLeo on July 21, 2017, 07:55:41 PM Coin jump over 2900 was VERY brief, but the recovery from around 2000ish as a low to the current 2500ish in the last few days is looking good.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 21, 2017, 10:03:14 PM Coin jump over 2900 was VERY brief, but the recovery from around 2000ish as a low to the current 2500ish in the last few days is looking good. yep and I actually managed to sell some at 2930 ;D not much 200 usd worth Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: isoneguy on July 21, 2017, 10:07:39 PM 7.0 = isoneguy :(
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 21, 2017, 10:31:17 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 867,748,412,219 (+7.86%) Adjust time: After 1094 Blocks, About 7.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,397,519,414 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.8 minutes 6 blocks: 57.6 minutes Updated: Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,312,295,494 (+7.43%) Adjust time: After 1036 Blocks, About 6.9 days Hashrate(?): 6,392,376,751 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.6 minutes 3 blocks: 28.9 minutes 6 blocks: 57.7 minutes and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 coins jumped over 2900 briefly! Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: vh on July 22, 2017, 01:00:08 AM 12.5 = vh
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: fr4nkthetank on July 22, 2017, 01:10:35 AM I feel someone is going to win this time, most likely wont be me though. Go btc price go, the latest rally was insane, reminds you that there is no limit to the speed of increasing price.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 22, 2017, 01:19:04 AM Back to the game Picks are open :
Experimental Image Contribution: http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. we have started at block # 1116 and a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff coinbase = 2775 usd! https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: Flying Hellfish on July 22, 2017, 01:48:30 AM +11.2 = Flying Hellfish
Thanks Phil :) Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 22, 2017, 03:30:08 AM Back to the game Picks are open :
Experimental Image Contribution: we have started at block # 1116http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 10.0 = leowonderful 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: alh on July 22, 2017, 08:40:42 AM As quickly as the BTC price dropped from $2600 --> $1900, it has now gone back up to about $2800. This is all within the span of a single difficulty period.
Big time roller-coaster..... Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: Psi on July 22, 2017, 12:09:23 PM +9.8 = Psi
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 22, 2017, 02:08:00 PM Back to the game Picks are open :
Experimental Image Contribution: we have started at block # 1116http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 9.8 = Psi 10.0 = leowonderful 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: edonkey on July 22, 2017, 03:47:50 PM Our girl cat says:
8.8 = eDonkey Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: HagssFIN on July 22, 2017, 06:13:54 PM My sister's two cats say: (:D)
+10.2 = HagssFIN Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: pusttiu on July 22, 2017, 08:31:29 PM +13.3 = pusttiu
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 22, 2017, 11:24:06 PM Back to the game Picks are open :
Experimental Image Contribution: we have started at block # 1116http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 8.8 = eDonkey 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 9.8 = Psi 10.0 = leowonderful 10.2 = HagssFIN 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb 13.3 = pusttiu Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: Tomintx on July 23, 2017, 01:09:00 AM 5.4 = tomintx
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 23, 2017, 09:35:34 AM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: we have started at block # 1116http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.4 = tomintx 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 8.8 = eDonkey 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 9.8 = Psi 10.0 = leowonderful 10.2 = HagssFIN 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb 13.3 = pusttiu Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: alh on July 23, 2017, 08:10:28 PM +10.5 = alh
BTC price currently $2773. Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 887,140,925,788 (+10.27%) Adjust time: After 562 Blocks, About 3.5 days Hashrate(?): 6,436,675,884 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.0 minutes 3 blocks: 26.9 minutes 6 blocks: 53.8 minutes Updated: 15:5 (7.0 minutes ago) Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 23, 2017, 10:05:57 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: we have started at block # 1116http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.4 = tomintx 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 8.8 = eDonkey 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 9.8 = Psi 10.0 = leowonderful 10.2 = HagssFIN 10.5 = Alh 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb 13.3 = pusttiu Picks will end at 516 Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: philipma1957 on July 24, 2017, 02:35:51 AM I am going to give a pick to Bigsky
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789369.msg20337121#msg20337121 as he made a large error in the thread above. Not sure if he is online but if it goes past the 516 deadline and he misses the picking I am assigning him one. As I do not like people getting hurt with an honest mistake. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now open! Post by: Bigsky on July 24, 2017, 07:22:24 AM Thanks for the thoughts philipma1957 If its not too late, what about 8.4,and if I win you can donate it to a worthy cause cheers mate Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 24, 2017, 12:53:19 PM Back to the game Picks are open : Experimental Image Contribution: we have started at block # 1116http://mining.tipsternet.com/images/BitcoinWisdom_AdjustTime.png Let's see how this holds up over time. If it works well enough, feel free to quote it Phil. a price rally is causing people to turn their s-7's back on and a big spike in diff https://bitcoinwisdom.com/assets/difficulty/bitcoin-hash_rate.png?1500553205 My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.4 = tomintx 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname 7.0 = isoneguy 8.0 = vapourminer 8.4 = bigsky 8.8 = eDonkey 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 9.8 = Psi 10.0 = leowonderful 10.2 = HagssFIN 10.5 = Alh 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb 13.3 = pusttiu Picks ended at 516 Bigsky was added as the last player good luck to all https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 884,786,146,085 (+9.98%) Adjust time: After 444 Blocks, About 2.8 days Hashrate(?): 6,543,426,191 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 8.9 minutes 3 blocks: 26.8 minutes 6 blocks: 53.5 minutes Updated: 8:50 (5.0 minutes ago) Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: leowonderful on July 24, 2017, 07:20:53 PM This is going to be damn near 10% if nothing changes. currently estimating about +11% but if blocks keep coming in slow (no blocks in 2+ hrs atm) we may go back to 9-10. These constant difficulty rises are a bit concerning though, my S7 may be coming to its EOL quicker than expected.
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: QuintLeo on July 24, 2017, 08:31:52 PM Not sure why we're seeing the current increase, the Bitmain "July" batch looked like it was all shipped out the first 2 weeks or so of the month.
Perhaps Bitfury finally got some chips shipped to a large farm? Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 24, 2017, 08:57:12 PM The key is price of the coin.
My gut tells my that by AUG 9th my wedding anniversary will we be over 3000usd a coin. If so the game will see more jumps of 5-10% . As the s-7's all stay alive for mining. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: QuintLeo on July 25, 2017, 08:43:25 AM S7 (and S5/SP20) units aren't much of the total network hashrate any more, they were STILL profitable even during the "close to $2000" dip.
The price doesn't matter during the intervals when there are no miners to buy. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 27, 2017, 02:21:41 AM with 7.53% and 52 blocks to go isoneguy 7.0 and vapourminer 8.0
have a chance isoneguy gets 7.0 to 7.099999999xxx vapourminer gets 8.0 to 8.099999999xxx Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: VRobb on July 27, 2017, 03:25:40 AM Ha ha! Just like the old days! No f'in idea where diff will go with all the roller-coaster ups and downs!! :D
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: QuintLeo on July 27, 2017, 07:40:17 AM My gut tells my that by AUG 9th my wedding anniversary will we be over 3000usd a coin. You got married on my sister's birthday. 8-O Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: alh on July 27, 2017, 08:04:46 AM Looks to me like another miss. I guessed way too high, along with several others.....
Bitcoin Difficulty: 804,525,194,568 Estimated Next Difficulty: 864,794,106,436 (+7.49%) Adjust time: After 18 Blocks, About 2.7 hours Hashrate(?): 6,227,075,973 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.0 minutes 3 blocks: 27.1 minutes 6 blocks: 54.2 minutes Updated: 2:50 (15.4 minutes ago) Crazy business indeed! Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 27, 2017, 12:11:51 PM We got close but no cigar
6.92% Difficulty History Date Difficulty Change Hash Rate Jul 27 2017 860,221,984,436 6.92% 6,157,708,817 GH/s Jul 14 2017 804,525,194,568 13.53% 5,759,015,666 GH/s My pick as usual is the same as always: -1.1 = philipma1957 2.0 = QuintLeo 5.0 = Last of The V8s 5.4 = tomintx 5.8 = fr4nkthetank 6.1 = cakir 6.7 = actmyname under 6.92 by a little .22 7.0 = isoneguy over 6.92 by less .08 8.0 = vapourminer 8.4 = bigsky 8.8 = eDonkey 9.2 = Landy1264 9.5 = CardShare 9.8 = Psi 10.0 = leowonderful 10.2 = HagssFIN 10.5 = Alh 11.2 = Flying Hellfish 12.5 = vh 13.0 = VRobb 13.3 = pusttiu Picks ended at 516 Bigsky was added as the last player I will set up a new contest later today. Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: fr4nkthetank on July 29, 2017, 03:57:22 AM no winner again lol. Hey anybody has ideas on difficulty after the fork ? I mean...depending on BCC price, a bunch of hashrate will cross over...difficulty will be uncertain at the re-adjust, and could cause problems mining blocks, potentially crippling bitcoin if a lot of hashrate leaves ?
Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 29, 2017, 04:17:16 AM no winner again lol. Hey anybody has ideas on difficulty after the fork ? I mean...depending on BCC price, a bunch of hashrate will cross over...difficulty will be uncertain at the re-adjust, and could cause problems mining blocks, potentially crippling bitcoin if a lot of hashrate leaves ? Well if a lot leave and 1 fork is 75 percent and the other 25 percent. It would add Say 5 days to the big fork And 20 days to the small fork Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: edonkey on July 29, 2017, 04:19:34 PM Did you guys see the analysis of changes to the BCC difficulty rules that will allow large pools to manipulate the difficulty backwards, without waiting for the next adjustment period?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6q3joc/a_voice_of_reason_in_the_mining_community/ Assuming this is true, is this vulnerability an honest mistake of the devs who perhaps wanted mining to be effective during their first period as miners bail for the main BTC chain? Because if hash power follows BTC, the block rate for the first adjustment period of BCC would approach infinity, given the original rules. Or was it intentionally designed to be exploitable by large pools like Antpool to maximize their acquisition of BCC block rewards during the initial pump and dump? This change to the rules might make it interesting to have a thread to guess the difficulty of BCC. Not that I think it's a good idea to legitimize BCC, but wouldn't it be interesting to watch the difficulty go backwards during an adjustment period? Regardless, the adjustment period for both chains after August 1st will likely be very interesting... Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: cakir on July 29, 2017, 06:45:09 PM Too bad I couln't get either... I'm gonna guess next time negative. Because of the 1 august shit & BitcoinCash shit.
Some of the miners will point their haspower into BCC... Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: Last of the V8s on July 31, 2017, 07:14:13 PM Bitcoin Difficulty: 860,221,984,436
Estimated Next Difficulty: 917,287,697,771 (+6.63%) Adjust time: After 1361 Blocks, About 9.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,450,431,265 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.8 minutes 3 blocks: 29.5 minutes 6 blocks: 59.0 minutes Updated: 20:5 (8.4 minutes ago) The calm before the storm? Title: Re: Difficulty contest rollover prize 2ltc 1 compac usb stick. Picks are now closed! Post by: philipma1957 on July 31, 2017, 07:16:03 PM Bitcoin Difficulty: 860,221,984,436 Estimated Next Difficulty: 917,287,697,771 (+6.63%) Adjust time: After 1361 Blocks, About 9.3 days Hashrate(?): 6,450,431,265 GH/s Block Generation Time(?): 1 block: 9.8 minutes 3 blocks: 29.5 minutes 6 blocks: 59.0 minutes Updated: 20:5 (8.4 minutes ago) The calm before the storm? Maybe it is much to do about nothing. I will open a thread to pick tomorrow should be fun or not. new thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2057465.msg20523218#msg20523218 |
