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Blockexplorer shows about 5000 seconds left until next difficulty.

Think it will be closer to 1.5M or 1.9M ?  My guess is 1.9M

My guess is 1563340.

We'll see how close I am...  ;)

~1.6 imo.

1,782,439

hehe, 1'563'415.74   is my guess

I predict 1,563,739. ;)

You guys guessing what block explorer shows as next retarget, strong guesswork~

If all were using same method to 'guess' a number one would assume if it was on the same block the numbers would all be much, much closer.

I used a tool for mine, but it certainly wasn't block explorer.

Guess we'll find out in a little while.

Why do you need to guess what the value is? The value is not some magical genie. It's mathematically calculated. It's been something along the lines of 12 days since the last retarget, 14/12 = ~1.17, so a 17% increase.


1379223*1.17 = ~1.6mil.

If I had been keeping track more efficiently of the times I'd have a better estimate, but that will be very close.

Now what there IS to wonder about is if we'll ever see retractions from all the doom and gloom crowd that have been predicting dire death and doom to us all, 50% difficulty increases every difficulty change every time without fail no matter what! I mean, the last few times it was 50% so obviously it will keep going forever.
As well as the dire price death of bitcoin, it dropped down to $11! So obviously it will never go back up again.

It's actually going to be around 13%.

Significantly, unless there's a mining boom in the next couple weeks, the next retarget after this one could be the first difficulty drop in quite some time (though it would probably be a fairly small drop).

As I said, I didn't really keep proper track of the exact times for retargets. 13% = 14/12.39; so you can see how there is a margin for error when one does not keep decimal places. The difference between 13% and 17% is marginal, 1.55mil vs 1.6mil, and it will likely fall somewhere in between. The point is that if you do have the available data you don't need to guess.

the guessing part comes in on what timestemp that last block rolls in on...
While, yes the margin is very small it is none the less amusing for those of us who are easily ammused to try and speculate what time the new difficulty will come in.

Last 133056 24/06/2011 11:45 is the last time stamp if you want to plug it into your math....

Well, 13-17% increase will be a welcome change from the two prior 50%+ changes.

How long does it take blockexplorer to get the newest one?

  def a welcome change to see it not friggin 50%

1 more blk to go. 1'562'245.69

close: 1,563,027.9961162

New difficulty = 1,564,057
Change in difficulty = +13%

Everyone was between 1.55 and 1.6. That's called guessing.

The timing and the network hash rate constantly change. People generally know where it will hit. People are guessing within that range.

You told people to stop guessing, ran the numbers and were way off, then said it's between 1.55 and 1.6. No kidding, that's the guessing part. Like I said, 13% (ended up being 13.3ish).

If you had really wanted to guess right: (14 days / actual number of days,minutes,seconds) * old difficulty

1 block remaining  :o

Which is what the tool I was using does. The guess part was being able to determine the actual 'days, mins, seconds' before the last block was found. Which is near impossible to get exact due to variance on each individual block.

Again, I said it's not a GUESS if you are using the proper data, which I only had approximately. The OP suggested 1.9 mil, which was way out of boundaries. If you want to guess at a fraction of a percent that's fine, though the applicable difference is nil. My numbers were not way off, show in what way they were? In most real world applications 10% is considered inconsequential, 4% even more so. I suggested how sloppy my own numbers were, and how I was going to be close despite that, and I was.

1.6mil vs 1.564 is 2.3% difference. Wowsers trowsers I was WAY OFF. Or not...?

1.9M is called pulling a random number out of your arse.