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https://www.bitrawr.com/difficulty-estimatorLatest Block: 699910 (a minute ago)
Current Pace: 96.9713% (359 / 370.21 expected, 11.21 behind)
Previous Difficulty: 17615033039278.88
Current Difficulty: 18415156832118.24
Next Difficulty: between 17980783508486 and 18271946723075
Next Difficulty Change: between -2.3588% and -0.7777%
Previous Retarget: last Tuesday at 8:05 PM (+4.5423%)
Next Retarget (earliest): September 21, 2021 at 11:29 PM (in 11d 13h 42m 9s)
Next Retarget (latest): September 22, 2021 at 6:35 AM (in 11d 20h 47m 31s)
Projected Epoch Length: between 14d 3h 24m 17s and 14d 10h 29m 39s
Current Pace: 96.9713% (359 / 370.21 expected, 11.21 behind)
Previous Difficulty: 17615033039278.88
Current Difficulty: 18415156832118.24
Next Difficulty: between 17980783508486 and 18271946723075
Next Difficulty Change: between -2.3588% and -0.7777%
Previous Retarget: last Tuesday at 8:05 PM (+4.5423%)
Next Retarget (earliest): September 21, 2021 at 11:29 PM (in 11d 13h 42m 9s)
Next Retarget (latest): September 22, 2021 at 6:35 AM (in 11d 20h 47m 31s)
Projected Epoch Length: between 14d 3h 24m 17s and 14d 10h 29m 39s
I like this a good indication of a large marginal mine either powered off or maybe upgrading.
prices are 45-46k
A drop back to 17.9 diff would be good for all established farms.
We have seen a lot of evidence that
chips are hard to come by.
That there maybe about 5eh of s9 hash in the hands of a big player.
Keep in mind the LTC/DOGE L7 is a big money earner in terms of $ per watt
of course the ETH asic gear also earns big money in terms of $ per watt
and the s19 pro earns less in terms of $ per watt.
Since bitmain is a really big gear producer of all 3 above. they may have come to the conclusion shift all 3 around don't mine against yourself.
Ie selling the gear makes less money then shutting it off and shuffling it around. Based on $ per watt.
Everything since May shows that all 3 major hash rates are locked down and controlled by very big players.
does anyone know where Jack Ma is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma
My guess is someone else runs bitmain and that they have locked down the hashrate for the 3 biggest algorithms.
If you were China government you could do this. Real gear and chip restriction. To the entire world.
Now this is all speculation but hashrate and gear production is very very very very tightly controlled at this moment.