10% BTC difficulty growth????

[Searing]

Does anyone realize chinese farms/pools + unknown control 70% of the current hash rate? You're crazy if your still mining as an individual in the English speaking world (I'm assuming you all not chinese because you're here). Who cares what the difficulty is? None of you are ever going to make anything more than pocket change by mining from this point forward.

BW.com  https://www.bw.com 13%

F2Pool  https://www.f2pool.com 15%

Antpool  https://www.bitmaintech.com/about.htm 17%

BTCChina  https://www.btcchina.com/#/ 6%

Unknown 20%

I generally agree. Private and home mining s been dead for a long time.
The key s increased acceptance. All these farms and mining efforts generate about 3500 BTC per day, regardless of the difficulty. The key s to find a way to absorb these 3500 BTC per day and the economy will grow.

Is this true ...does it help BTC if these large farms cash out to USD each day as KNC says it does? Also remember KNC wants to control 40% of all bitcoin mining with their data hall and IPO arrangement ...and they will continue to cash out to USD each day (no holding)

not a slam..just don't know how all this would effect btc price or btc future use etc if this is the case

[A10010]

Does anyone realize chinese farms/pools + unknown control 70% of the current hash rate? You're crazy if your still mining as an individual in the English speaking world (I'm assuming you all not chinese because you're here). Who cares what the difficulty is? None of you are ever going to make anything more than pocket change by mining from this point forward.

BW.com  https://www.bw.com 13%

F2Pool  https://www.f2pool.com 15%

Antpool  https://www.bitmaintech.com/about.htm 17%

BTCChina  https://www.btcchina.com/#/ 6%

Unknown 20%

I generally agree. Private and home mining s been dead for a long time.
The key s increased acceptance. All these farms and mining efforts generate about 3500 BTC per day, regardless of the difficulty. The key s to find a way to absorb these 3500 BTC per day and the economy will grow.

Is this true ...does it help BTC if these large farms cash out to USD each day as KNC says it does? Also remember KNC wants to control 40% of all bitcoin mining with their data hall and IPO arrangement ...and they will continue to cash out to USD each day (no holding)

not a slam..just don't know how all this would effect btc price or btc future use etc if this is the case

Most probably it's irrelevant.

[odolvlobo]

Keep in mind that the graphs are not actually showing hash rate. They are showing the rate that blocks are being produced, and the hash rate is inferred.

There is a huge random component to block production. Spikes in the graph are generally random fluctuations, though there have been times when the effect of farms being turned on and off have shown up in the charts.

So what do you use to monitor hashrate?

The only way to estimate total hash rate is by looking at the rate that blocks are produced. Those graphs are the best we can do short of tracking all miners, which is not currently possible.

[Minerjoe]

8% for now, I do not thing it ll go lover then that. We did have -1.5% last time. If it comes down a bit more, maybe it s not that terrible.

[Searing]

8% for now, I do not thing it ll go lover then that. We did have -1.5% last time. If it comes down a bit more, maybe it s not that terrible.

well imho when the KNC data hall hits with the 16nm stuff roles out ...supposedly 'tapeout'  was done Febuary 3rd 2015 (take with a grain of salt this is knc we are talking about)

http://www.kncminer.com/blog/newsarchive

say give them another 3 weeks imho and blamo they will flip the switch on this new (private) 16nm data hall / ipo


anyway ..they claim they want to 'own' 40% of all mining by 2016 with this data hall and IPO endeavor.....so I would expect that is gonna be an 'ugly' couple of months
for difficulty with bitcoin......also still have no idea (and asked others) what such a splash would do to the bitcoin pool so to speak..coinfidence in bitcoin as a virtual currency
and price in general

myself no idea ..but I am a bit leery of KNC reaching the 40% of all mining goal and continuing to do.....cashing out ALL BTC to USD DAILY...that is not going
to change I guess....so ...that alone makes me scratch my head on how that is (or not) going to effect confidence in bitcoin..when a corp like KNC MAY control
40% of all mining with the added question of always cashing out to USD each day....

again no idea ...just to the clueless of the world (myself) does not bode well imho

others on here with more insight feel free to jump in (me just pointing out the obvious...as to what it means no frigging idea)

  

[mavericklm]

c'est la vie! and we are not anymore in the age of cpu mining....

we got: knc, bitfury, sfards, bitmain, etc and you guys complain of 10% jump???

they got everything going for themselves(low $/kw, know how, funds) so 15% jump in the network is almost nothing!

just some ideas: don't get used to under 5%, think big and bigger(my ~10th home mining ''farm'' is nothing), look for very cheap electricity and ways of using the wasted heat!

[philipma1957]

8% for now, I do not thing it ll go lover then that. We did have -1.5% last time. If it comes down a bit more, maybe it s not that terrible.

well imho when the KNC data hall hits with the 16nm stuff roles out ...supposedly 'tapeout'  was done Febuary 3rd 2015 (take with a grain of salt this is knc we are talking about)

http://www.kncminer.com/blog/newsarchive

say give them another 3 weeks imho and blamo they will flip the switch on this new (private) 16nm data hall / ipo


anyway ..they claim they want to 'own' 40% of all mining by 2016 with this data hall and IPO endeavor.....so I would expect that is gonna be an 'ugly' couple of months
for difficulty with bitcoin......also still have no idea (and asked others) what such a splash would do to the bitcoin pool so to speak..coinfidence in bitcoin as a virtual currency
and price in general

myself no idea ..but I am a bit leery of KNC reaching the 40% of all mining goal and continuing to do.....cashing out ALL BTC to USD DAILY...that is not going
to change I guess....so ...that alone makes me scratch my head on how that is (or not) going to effect confidence in bitcoin..when a corp like KNC MAY control
40% of all mining with the added question of always cashing out to USD each day....

again no idea ...just to the clueless of the world (myself) does not bode well imho

others on here with more insight feel free to jump in (me just pointing out the obvious...as to what it means no frigging idea)

  

well lets say they do it 40% which is 800 coins each diff jump.   to do this and it is truly a moron move to do it.  they need .1 watt gear. and they need 200th.

the math of turning down your .4 watt gear and putting in .1 watt as a replacement . works better

say 20ph at .4 = 8 MW of power     do 80ph at .1 = 8 MW of power .   Zero power cost just gear itself and a 60ph increase. Smarter to do.

Still bad for the 10th guy.

Do the same for bitfury they are supposed to have 20mw center   it runs 30ph  at .66 watts    pull the old gear out  put in .33 watts gear

they go from 30ph to 60ph

KNC and Bitfury   would move from 50ph to 140ph  with 0 cost for the power!  This would be smart business for them.  It is most likley a variation of what is happening.

My guess is this will last for a little bit and then back to -1 to  +4 jumps.   Of course just because my plan makes business sense does not mean they have other ideas.

[Minerjoe]

It seems to be slowing down a bit but this might be due to terrible Antpool luck in the last 12 hours.

[notlist3d]

It seems to be slowing down a bit but this might be due to terrible Antpool luck in the last 12 hours.

Antpool was killing it just 24 hours ago and best profit in a while.  But you are right Antpool has had some bad luck on latest blocks.

It's looking more and more like it's going to be somewhere in 7.XX on difficulty change.

[Minerjoe]

It seems to be slowing down a bit but this might be due to terrible Antpool luck in the last 12 hours.

Antpool was killing it just 24 hours ago and best profit in a while.  But you are right Antpool has had some bad luck on latest blocks.

It's looking more and more like it's going to be somewhere in 7.XX on difficulty change.

Yes, I agree, maybe even a bit under 7% if we are lucky.

[Searing]

It seems to be slowing down a bit but this might be due to terrible Antpool luck in the last 12 hours.

Antpool was killing it just 24 hours ago and best profit in a while.  But you are right Antpool has had some bad luck on latest blocks.

It's looking more and more like it's going to be somewhere in 7.XX on difficulty change.

Yes, I agree, maybe even a bit under 7% if we are lucky.

Does anyone remember what KNC was planning for capacity on their 16nm chip data hall private IPO?

they took down their old site and forums ..so no idea if that was ever floated or not

just curious when that cannonball will hit the 'difficulty pool' so to speak

[Minerjoe]

I guess I was right, we are going down a bit. Under 7%.

[Minerjoe]

I guess I was right, we are going down a bit. Under 7%.

Under 5% now. Let us see if we can go even lower.

[crazyivan]

You re gonna get a hear attack if you follow diff on a daily basis. My suggestion s to set up a cloud mining account somewhere and reinvest 60% of your payouts. Your ROI s gonna be about a year but you should be able to reach it in theory. Also, only choose cloud mining services where you can exit the market in case you do not like the outcome.

[alh]

You re gonna get a hear attack if you follow diff on a daily basis. My suggestion s to set up a cloud mining account somewhere and reinvest 60% of your payouts. Your ROI s gonna be about a year but you should be able to reach it in theory. Also, only choose cloud mining services where you can exit the market in case you do not like the outcome.

While I haven't followed the cloud mining market closely, is there a cloud mining service that has lasted one year on which to test this theory? My general take on cloud mining is that there are two risks: One if the usual risk associated with mining Bitcoins no matter what. The 2nd risk is that the cloud mining service just goes "POOF" and you are left with nothing besides the Bitcoin you have presumably shipped off to your wallet every month or so.

[crazyivan]

You re gonna get a hear attack if you follow diff on a daily basis. My suggestion s to set up a cloud mining account somewhere and reinvest 60% of your payouts. Your ROI s gonna be about a year but you should be able to reach it in theory. Also, only choose cloud mining services where you can exit the market in case you do not like the outcome.

While I haven't followed the cloud mining market closely, is there a cloud mining service that has lasted one year on which to test this theory? My general take on cloud mining is that there are two risks: One if the usual risk associated with mining Bitcoins no matter what. The 2nd risk is that the cloud mining service just goes "POOF" and you are left with nothing besides the Bitcoin you have presumably shipped off to your wallet every month or so.

I can only suggest Hashnest and Bit-x. If you need more help with any of these, do let me know.

[Amph]

I guess I was right, we are going down a bit. Under 7%.

Under 5% now. Let us see if we can go even lower.

i doubt, the price is rising now, +6 dollars, i think another little pump is incoming, diff should rise too

[crazyivan]

I guess I was right, we are going down a bit. Under 7%.

Under 5% now. Let us see if we can go even lower.

i doubt, the price is rising now, +6 dollars, i think another little pump is incoming, diff should rise too

Diff will definitely rise this time. About the price, I m not so sure, we ve seen it so many times. After a small pump, there s profit skimming.
Still, mining s a long run ROI, so no point making short term assumptions.