I was checking out my mining on Hash-to-Coins (12/5/14 - @ 4pm Pacific US time) and they usually have a combined hash of 4500 Mh/s on average (spread out over 25 or so coins).
Well all of a sudden I saw it
spike up to almost
14000 Mh/s -- with
9000 Mh/s on the 42coin pool. Of course this made the difficulty jump up from 13 to like 50 really really quick and then the big 'ole hasher left. It killed the coin for many hours.
So - where did this 8 Gh/s to 9 Gh/s come from? I believe it was all from one entity.
9 Gh/s would require something like
ninety A2 Terminator miners (@ 100 Mh/s)?
What do you think happened?- Some new mining farm flexing their muscle? Put this much power behind BTM and it would take forever for it to come back down. Your coins would be in limbo for some time. I mean this is already happening now with BTM - such a vicious cycle.
- Some hardware company testing out units? Antminer L1s? The never seen Zeusminer III boards? The potential Lunar Astro units?
- Or maybe some large LTC pool decided to see what would happen if they diverted their power to a lower difficulty coin?
- Or is this something more sinister? Altcoin warfare?
I dunno - just that it was a bit odd and made me a little nervous. Are lower difficulty alt coins in danger?
Any opinions?
