I've been looking over the charts and it seems like the network hash rate is starting to plateau.

Is this a short term or long term trend? Could we enjoy the current difficulty level for more than 12 days?

Is this an indication that most of the available hardware is in the hands of miners and we should expect another jump as the next generation of hardware is shipped over the next couple months?

Or is the observation period too short to determine if this is a plateau or not?

I'm 99% sure the antminer bmsc options only work with the CGminer build from that address in my first reply.

https://github.com/antminer/antgen1/tree/master/cgminer

cgminer.exe --bmsc-options 115200:20 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.mining.eligius.st:3334 -u walletid -p x --bmsc-freq 0881

use freq 0781 as the default then try 0881/0981/0B81

Like I say, once I got this working the way i wanted I didn't attempt another method, and I'm sure if Luke Jr. says BFGMiner works with antminers, then you can get it to work.

The only way I was able to get my antminer U1 devices to work was to go to:

https://github.com/antminer/antgen1/tree/master/cgminer

and follow the directions precisely. the "--bmsc" portions of the command line tell CGMiner how to talk to the Antminers, and I'm not sure those "--bmsc" options are compiled in every build or the default build. I haven't really experimented much after I got everything working. I figured if it is broke, don't fix it.

So on one Win 8.1 box I have Easyminer running my BFL SC 50 Gh/s with the latest CGMiner, and an instance of CGminer 3.8.6 from that github address running my 4 antminers overclocked at 1.9GH/s.

Yes I'm mining on Eligius. I increased my hash rate enough to finally anticipate a payout some time this week.

I hope this counts as my significant post!

In a passing fancy i started researching bitcoin mining in November 2013. The first week of December the same year I loaded up bfgminer on a windows 8.1 machine with two nvidia 760 GTX cards and ripped up a massive 260 mh/s. Well I wanted more. Some ASIC thumb drives later and I'm hooked on sniping cheaper hardware off of eBay until I can roll some coins into better hardware.

Along the way I put together a Raspberry Pi rig with some Red BitFuries. My son is so interested, involved, and excited about learning electronics now that even if BTC trades for $1.00 it was worth the adventure!