working next difficulty estimate (blockexplorer.com/q/estimate)

[phelix]

The estimate for the next difficulty at http://blockexplorer.com/q/estimate says:

ERROR: unknown (Most likely my bitcoind stopped working or this page is too large/complex.)

It has been like that for a while now. Is there an alternative API with an estimate for the next difficulty? Blockchain.info does not seem to offer this.

I have been using the estimate for my website and graphs at http://blockchained.com

[phelix]

BTW I notified the maintainers (BitKey) to no avail.

So there is no difficulty forecast API available? Seems like an opportunity...

[newIndia]

So there is no difficulty forecast API available? Seems like an opportunity...

https://alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator/json?hashrate=358373688

Code:

{
  "bc_per_block": 25.0, 
  "coins_before_retarget": 1.1441951795292777e-05, 
  "coins_per_hour": 1.511201180510367e-07, 
  "coins_per_hour_after_retarget": 1.2953152975803147e-07, 
  "difficulty": 49692386354.89384, 
  "dollars_before_retarget": 0.002765519748922264, 
  "dollars_per_hour": 3.652573253293557e-05, 
  "dollars_per_hour_after_retarget": 3.13077707425162e-05, 
  "exchange_rate": 241.7, 
  "exchange_rate_source": "preev", 
  "hashrate": 358373688.0, 
  "next_difficulty": 57974450747.376144, 
  "time_per_block": 595552737522.379
}

"next_difficulty": 57974450747.376144

alloscomp.com calculation is not good for 4+ days estimation. This is better...

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

But, you need to scrape HTML for it^^.

[phelix]

alloscomp would work but it seems off quite a bit currently suggesting +16%

The value at bitcoinwisdom (+0.59%) looks realistic. I contacted them here.

Thank you very much for pointing me toward bitcoinwisdom! 

[phelix]

bitcoinwisdom seems to be headless