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Title: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: barbarousrelic on July 27, 2012, 04:14:15 PM
Joy of joys!

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

The 3-day window estimate is above 15 TH/s


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: rjk on July 27, 2012, 04:17:08 PM
Joy of joys!

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

The 3-day window estimate is above 15 TH/s
Mini-riggers, start your engines!


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: unclemantis on July 27, 2012, 05:10:58 PM
Nice! Let's hope it keeps growing this time. :)

Looks like the price of btc is getting more and more stable now and going up  up up up up!


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: Stephen Gornick on July 27, 2012, 08:48:06 PM
The 3-day window estimate is above 15 TH/s

For the record, the highest difficulty of 1,888,786.705353 was first reached at block 139,104, August 1, 2011:
 - http://blockexplorer.com/b/139104

Current difficulty is 1,866,391.305003 but estimates show that will probably go over 2 million in three days when the next difficulty adjustment period begins.

 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHVRMHpqWUJValI1RlZiaEtCT1RrQmc


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: BitPay Business Solutions on July 27, 2012, 08:52:53 PM
we've had 10 blocks found in the last hour.  the hashing problem is apparently too easy for the miners to solve right now :)


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on July 27, 2012, 08:58:13 PM
Oh sorry I was testing my round reduction attack on SHA-256.  Allows me to hash in 16 rounds instead of 80. 


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: deepceleron on July 27, 2012, 09:19:57 PM
Technically, the highest difficulty's evaluation period would be the second half of July 2011:

Record difficulty: Block 139104 (http://blockexplorer.com/b/139104) (2011-08-01) difficulty:1888786.705353
Current difficulty:  Block 189504 (http://blockexplorer.com/b/189504) (2012-07-17) difficulty:1866391.305003
Current block (http://blockexplorer.com/q/getblockcount): 191092 (78.8% of difficulty period elapsed)
Block 191520 (http://blockexplorer.com/b/191520) (~2012-07-30) estimated: 2.1M
(last 120 (http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php)): estimated 2.5M


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: niko on July 28, 2012, 04:56:21 AM
To keep with the tradition of buying high and selling low, I shall celebrate by dusting of my 5830 and firing it up! Going solo!


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: smoothie on July 28, 2012, 06:02:17 AM
To keep with the tradition of buying high and selling low, I shall celebrate by dusting of my 5830 and firing it up! Going solo!

Hurry up...if you're lucky you might make 15 bitcoins before the reward having later this year!


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: Cryptoman on July 28, 2012, 06:05:25 AM
To keep with the tradition of buying high and selling low, I shall celebrate by dusting of my 5830 and firing it up! Going solo!

Hurry up...if you're lucky you might make 15 bitcoins before the reward having later this year!

...but if he's going solo, it's 50 bitcoins or nothing.


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: niko on July 28, 2012, 06:38:42 AM
Back to the topic - this doesn't necesserily mean Bitcoin network has grown. It may be the same number of people mining on improved technology.


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: smoothie on July 28, 2012, 07:23:14 AM
Hashrate increase is imminent.

Less power, more GH/s = better competition for BTC

Whether BFL holds up to their supposed hashrates or not, over time people will find better ways to mine.


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: Shadow383 on July 28, 2012, 01:45:39 PM
Back to the topic - this doesn't necesserily mean Bitcoin network has grown. It may be the same number of people mining on improved technology.

This.
We've got probably upwards of a terahash of FPGA gear, and ATI's 7xxx cards are obviously better miners than anything that came before. Back in July last year I was running a few 5850s, getting 370Mhash each.
Now I'm running 7970s doing 580Mhash each with scope to push them to 680 if I wanted to...


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: goxed on July 29, 2012, 09:18:02 AM
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-ever.png
The 7day window is already at a higher high!


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: SlaveInDebt on July 29, 2012, 09:59:16 AM
Bigger numbers are better.





You heard it hear first.


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: SMOKEU on July 30, 2012, 07:31:37 AM
Video games are no fun without weed.

+1 to that.


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: deepceleron on July 30, 2012, 11:37:01 AM
New record difficulty:

2036671.088693


Title: Re: The Bitcoin hashrate is about to pass or has already passed its Aug2011 peak
Post by: goxed on July 30, 2012, 11:54:45 PM
New record difficulty:

2036671.088693

last run has begun! 25 BTC is coming...


The network has come a long way. only if it sustains this growth and more!