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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: ukjack on September 29, 2017, 12:28:58 PM



Title: Can somebody explain this mining profit spike?
Post by: ukjack on September 29, 2017, 12:28:58 PM
Taking a look at NiceHash BTC returns for DaggerHashimoto there was a big spike between March 11th and April 28th, can anybody explain the reason for this?

https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/daggerhashimoto
https://image.prntscr.com/image/p9SvUIJ9RR_AMWyyHvkaKA.png


Title: Re: Can somebody explain this mining profit spike?
Post by: ahmedjamal1998 on September 29, 2017, 12:51:22 PM

Well if you check the price history for ethereum you'll find that before March 11 the price range was in $20 and then in the rest of March and April the price was more than the double. The spike got up from $20 to $50 and stayed in $40 - $45 for some time.

I'm not sure if this is the direct reason or not because nothing else makes sense to me. Looking at the difficult at that time, there was no difficulty drop or anything similar so the only thing that would just more earnings would be the price increase of it while btc stayed almost same at the time with not that huge diff. increase (in the range).


Title: Re: Can somebody explain this mining profit spike?
Post by: leowonderful on September 29, 2017, 12:59:37 PM
When people buy lots of hashpower price goes up. That's how Nicehash works, Ethereum's first major price spike is the most likely reason why profitability went up for a while then.


Title: Re: Can somebody explain this mining profit spike?
Post by: Sev18 on September 29, 2017, 01:20:24 PM
We've experience huge boom of ethereum mining in May. It was due to amazing increase of ethereum price.


Title: Re: Can somebody explain this mining profit spike?
Post by: phundred on September 29, 2017, 01:21:38 PM

Well if you check the price history for ethereum you'll find that before March 11 the price range was in $20 and then in the rest of March and April the price was more than the double. The spike got up from $20 to $50 and stayed in $40 - $45 for some time.

I'm not sure if this is the direct reason or not because nothing else makes sense to me. Looking at the difficult at that time, there was no difficulty drop or anything similar so the only thing that would just more earnings would be the price increase of it while btc stayed almost same at the time with not that huge diff. increase (in the range).


Yes, the main reason is because of the price of ETH rised within the period. But why do you ask so late, it was 6 months ago...