Almost certainly some hashrate has been moved over to mine on BCH (IMHO). It's got a significant amount, and I don't think it was just sitting on the sidelines waiting for the fork to happen. My understanding is that Bitmain has some investment in BCH, so it would make sense that they want to support it for a while.

Are you interested in parting out a single 8GB 1070 GPU? If so, for how much?

As my Dad would have said:

Close, but no cigar!

+6.0 = alh

BTc price is on a real tear now at $3278. Looks like Phil's estimate/hope of $3000 by early August is spot on. Just have to see if it holds.

Yes, it has been for a few days. No graphs to indicate a trend to help you (or me). Phillip suggested : https://bitcoincharts.com/ buried in the message above for basic info.

Feels a bit like "flying blind" to me though.   

Is bitcoinwisdom "frozen" and no longer updating? That's been my "Go To" place for stuff related to hashrate, difficulty, blocks and the like.

So, do BCC discussions fall into the Alt-Coin area, or are they welcome here?

I am woefully ignorant about anything related to "the fork". Does anybody actually mine specifically on the fork?

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!

So, do you have the "DeLorean" version, or something else??? My "Flux Capacitor" is damaged beyond repair, I am afraid....

Are your settings for forward, or backward from here?

This can be done if you have a small miner, one or two solar panels, and a 12V battery, all in very close proximity to each other. One key item to remember is that with say a 1Kw miner, that's 83+ Amps at 12V. That's a bunch of pretty serious wires to carry that current. If you have enough panels to produce 1KW, it isn't practical to place those close to the miner and the battery. When you get to tens or maybe a hundred feet of cable to carry 80 Amps at 12V, it gets to be pretty cumbersome. Just imagine what it would be like with 10 Kw of solar panels.

Just like with electric companies, it's much better to use a higher voltage with lower amperage to transmit power over distance (e.g. miles). Same principle for a solar setup since you don't want a mass of heavy gauge wire to connect all the components, just on a smaller scale. You don't want to lose a lot of power, just in the wiring. You see this at all levels of a power distribution system where it's more efficient to use a higher voltage to get a lower current (e.g. 240V or 480VAC for high power applications).

+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)

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.....

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").

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.

Nothing says that Bitmain didn't deploy 1,000 S9's within their data center before they worried about shipping units to customers. I clearly picked too low, just like almost everyone else.....

+9.9 = alh

Bitcoin Difficulty:    708,659,466,230
Estimated Next Difficulty:    780,565,274,191 (+10.15%)
Adjust time:    After 524 Blocks, About 3.3 days
Hashrate(?):    5,924,279,716 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):    
1 block: 9.1 minutes
3 blocks: 27.2 minutes
6 blocks: 54.5 minutes
   
Updated:    1:20 (7.4 minutes ago)

What's interesting to consider is the amount of hash that needs to be added to make a 10% from the last adjustment.  Using the figure from bitcoinwisdom of 5,072,782 TH at the last change, the network would need to add 507,278 TH for a 10% increase. That's a lot of S9 hardware, or BitFury containers to deploy. You would think the logistics alone would be pretty daunting. My guess is that this is actually stuff that's been purchased as the price was rising and has taken a while to actually made active. Maybe Bitmain has been "sand bagging" for a while.......

While I got too crushed by my regular job to participate, I had been figuring that it was going to be a negative jump. The current figures continue to support that, though it might be even more negative than I was thinking. This would be the 1st difficulty decrease for 2017.

Bitcoin Difficulty:    711,697,198,174
Estimated Next Difficulty:    694,038,303,157 (-2.48%)
Adjust time:    After 239 Blocks, About 1.7 days
Hashrate(?):    4,837,168,506 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):    
1 block: 10.4 minutes
3 blocks: 31.2 minutes
6 blocks: 1.0 hours
   
Updated:    9:55 (5.9 minutes ago)

I have wondered how closely the aggregate hash rate tracks BTC price. For a while BTC prices had been rising rapidly, except it has now fallen back more to a $2400-2600 range. With no obvious spike back towards $3000, might enough folks "switch off" to matter?

Looks to me that it has just opened:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    711,697,198,174
Estimated Next Difficulty:    713,559,827,688 (+0.26%)
Adjust time:    After 1113 Blocks, About 7.7 days
Hashrate(?):    5,039,185,925 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):    
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.9 minutes
6 blocks: 59.7 minutes

Phil will confirm I am sure.......