In the last hour we are averaging 1 block every 2 minutes.

[nwfella]

Holy crap!  FriedCat, is that you messin around with your next-gen stuff?

[VolanicEruptor]

There is no reason why there can't be a string of fast blocks without a change in hash rate.

But the hash rate is obviously going up very rapidly right now.  We weren't just basing this on a string of blocks, but rather the overall chart for this difficulty period.

[OROBTC]

...

KnCMiner is now in 4th place, ahead of Eligius and Slush.  Yow!  Maybe KnC was running under "Unknown" before...

https://blockchain.info/pools

(12:11 AM US ET, 22 June 2014)

[abacus]

ATM bitcoinwisdom is reporting an estimated next difficulty of 16,551,801,281 (+22.95%).

It's the second higher increase of 2014!
(the first one is the 26% increase on the Jan 13)

The Estimated Next Difficulty keep raising: 16,892,726,313 (+25.48%)

We are very near to the 2014 record.

[xstr8guy]

...

KnCMiner is now in 4th place, ahead of Eligius and Slush.  Yow!  Maybe KnC was running under "Unknown" before...

https://blockchain.info/pools

(12:11 AM US ET, 22 June 2014)

No, they have just spent the last week filling their DC's with brand new 20nm Neptunes.

[thimo]

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

New estimated difficulty is now at +26% already and we are not even halfway to the next adjustment time.

[lowbander80]

The chinese think if they produce tons tons of miners the idiot buyers will continue buying them....