Next difficulty increase or decrease?

[mute20]

I am gonna take a guess and say it will increase. Not by much maybe by 30000. What do you think will happen?

[Graet]

<gribble> Current Blocks: 142295 | Current Difficulty: 1805700.8361937 | Next Difficulty At Block: 143135 | Next Difficulty In: 840 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 5 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 1889494.31183074

<gribble> 4.64049603109 % estimated difficulty change this period

i'm thinking it could go higher as ppl come back from other *coins and there are still (believe it or not) ppl adding mining hardware to the network.

[silverchair]

<gribble> Current Blocks: 142295 | Current Difficulty: 1805700.8361937 | Next Difficulty At Block: 143135 | Next Difficulty In: 840 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 5 days, 12 hours, 46 minutes, and 0 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: 1889494.31183074

<gribble> 4.64049603109 % estimated difficulty change this period

i'm thinking it could go higher as ppl come back from other *coins and there are still (believe it or not) ppl adding mining hardware to the network.

So it will increase 

[mute20]

Seems like a big difference on bitcoincharts today

Difficulty   1806098
Estimated   1808869 in 713 blks

[rotrott]

Are these spikes caused by variance in solving blocks or are they actually caused by adding and taking away network hashes?  It seems strange that 3 thash would be added and taken away in just a few days...

[gw4tt]

Every time a new coin comes out around 1 - 2 TH moves around. If another coin is more profitable, a TH or 2 might go to that coin as well.

Luck also plays a factor, but a lot of mining power has been moving around back and forth with the new coins.

[geek-trader]

Well, as a bitcoin miner that stays in bitcoin, keep the stupidcoins coming!