Diff thread sept 17th. to sept 30th Picks are closed!!

[bit_kevin]

Looks like Bitmain purchased BTC.com from ole homero lol..

Spooky...

At least they put it to good use. But I think their diff estimate is even worse than BitcoinWisdom's:

https://chain.btc.com/en/stats/diff

(+4.90%) 62.24 G

Unless they know something we don't, e.g. how many S7++ they are going to deploy today and tomorrow LOL

we have fixed the bug(using latest 2016 blocks instead of 1008). Now it's looks ok: 2.39% - 60.75G. And just now the new diff come out: 60.81G.

[flikflak]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

[philipma1957]

We did a mad rush of blocks. +2.49%

East coast of USA is going to have a H-Cane

I wonder if it will be like Sandy and knock out power for days.



Difficulty History

Date   Difficulty   Change   Hash Rate
Oct 01 2015   60,813,224,039   2.49%   435,318,014 GH/s



Sep 17 2015   59,335,351,234   4.17%   424,738,988 GH/s
Sep 04 2015   56,957,648,455   4.98%   407,718,729 GH/s
Aug 22 2015   54,256,630,328   2.95%   388,384,088 GH/s
Aug 08 2015   52,699,842,409   0.81%   377,240,166 GH/s
Jul 25 2015   52,278,304,846   2.35%   374,222,683 GH/s
Jul 11 2015   51,076,366,303   3.39%   365,618,871 GH/s
Jun 28 2015   49,402,014,931   -0.58%   353,633,397 GH/s
Jun 14 2015   49,692,386,355   4.42%   355,711,957 GH/s
May 31 2015   47,589,591,154   -2.50%   340,659,563 GH/s
May 17 2015   48,807,487,245   2.44%   349,377,603 GH/s
May 03 2015   47,643,398,018   0.07%   341,044,727 GH/s
Apr 19 2015   47,610,564,513   -3.71%   340,809,696 GH/s
Apr 05 2015   49,446,390,688   5.84%   353,951,052 GH/s
Mar 22 2015   46,717,549,645   -1.50%   334,417,246 GH/s
Mar 08 2015   47,427,554,951   1.59%   339,499,662 GH/s
Feb 22 2015   46,684,376,317   5.01%   334,179,783 GH/s
Feb 09 2015   44,455,415,962   7.71%   318,224,263 GH/s
Jan 27 2015   41,272,873,895   -6.14%   295,442,739 GH/s
Jan 12 2015   43,971,662,056   8.20%   314,761,417 GH/s
Dec 30 2014   40,640,955,017   3.00%   290,919,288 GH/s
Dec 17 2014   39,457,671,307   -1.37%   282,449,013 GH/s
Dec 02 2014   40,007,470,271   -0.73%   286,384,627 GH/s
Nov 18 2014   40,300,030,328   1.76%   288,478,854 GH/s
Nov 05 2014   39,603,666,252   10.05%   283,494,086 GH/s
Oct 23 2014   35,985,640,265   2.81%   257,595,247 GH/s
Oct 09 2014   35,002,482,026   0.98%   250,557,526 GH/s
Sep 25 2014   34,661,425,924   16.20%   248,116,151 GH/s
Sep 13 2014   29,829,733,124   8.75%   213,529,547 GH/s
Aug 31 2014   27,428,630,902   15.03%   196,341,788 GH/s
Aug 19 2014   23,844,670,039   20.86%   170,686,797 GH/s
Aug 08 2014   19,729,645,941   5.30%   141,230,307 GH/s
Jul 25 2014   18,736,441,558   8.08%   134,120,673 GH/s
Jul 12 2014   17,336,316,979   3.08%   124,098,191 GH/s
Jun 29 2014   16,818,461,371   24.93%   120,391,236 GH/s
Jun 18 2014   13,462,580,115   14.51%   96,368,902 GH/s
Jun 05 2014   11,756,551,917   12.44%   84,156,677 GH/s
May 24 2014   10,455,720,138   18.10%   74,844,960 GH/s
May 12 2014   8,853,416,309   10.66%   63,375,223 GH/s
Apr 29 2014   8,000,872,136   14.64%   57,272,474 GH/s
Apr 17 2014   6,978,842,650   14.04%   49,956,502 GH/s
Apr 05 2014   6,119,726,089   22.23%   43,806,706 GH/s
Mar 24 2014   5,006,860,589   17.80%   35,840,504 GH/s
Mar 13 2014   4,250,217,920   11.39%   30,424,245 GH/s
Feb 28 2014   3,815,723,799   21.92%   27,314,015 GH/s
Feb 17 2014   3,129,573,175   19.39%   22,402,357 GH/s
Feb 05 2014   2,621,404,453   19.49%   18,764,744 GH/s
Jan 24 2014   2,193,847,870   22.59%   15,704,175 GH/s
Jan 13 2014   1,789,546,951   26.16%   12,810,076 GH/s

[suchmoon]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

The cats finally did it!

edonkey - bake a lasagna for your cats and let me know your BTC address.

[VirosaGITS]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

The cats finally did it!

edonkey - bake a lasagna for your cats and let me know your BTC address.

Congrats for the prize, we got a pretty acceptable difficulty raise. And now let the S7 waves kicks in. The next difficulty raise may very well look a bit more "interesting". About all first 3 batches of S7s should hit/start hitting soon enough to see what they can do to the difficulty for real.

[edonkey]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

The cats finally did it!

edonkey - bake a lasagna for your cats and let me know your BTC address.

At last! One of the cats came through FTW!

The other cat is jealous now. Maybe she'll try harder next time.

They're not like Garfield though. Fishy treats are way better than lasagna.

[HerbPean]

congrats !

I was sure I was getting this one

[notlist3d]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

The cats finally did it!

edonkey - bake a lasagna for your cats and let me know your BTC address.

At last! One of the cats came through FTW!

The other cat is jealous now. Maybe she'll try harder next time.

They're not like Garfield though. Fishy treats are way better than lasagna.

Congratz it's nice to see a difficulty less then 5.   So I consider this a win.

We will have to wait and see I really hop once batch 2-3 on S7 ship we don't see 5's again.

[d57heinz]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

The cats finally did it!

edonkey - bake a lasagna for your cats and let me know your BTC address.

Congrats for the prize, we got a pretty acceptable difficulty raise. And now let the S7 waves kicks in. The next difficulty raise may very well look a bit more "interesting". About all first 3 batches of S7s should hit/start hitting soon enough to see what they can do to the difficulty for real.

I actually think we will get a near steady diff this next two weeks as bitmain and rest of china on holidays till 9th.. Assuming they get everything shipped by the 14 th .. it looks like unless the other asic manu. start putting more online then it may slack a bit.. Well at least i hope so anyway.. Congrats edonkey on getting it right this round.. Ill try to put mine in for next thread soon as it comes.. Seems they get filled in quick with the slots i like:)

Best Regards
d57heinz

[suchmoon]

Well well, thats a tight one with 2.49%. Congratz edonkey!

The cats finally did it!

edonkey - bake a lasagna for your cats and let me know your BTC address.

Plot twist - there is no reward payout this time because edonkey decided to let the reward roll over.

In other words, the next reward is going to be 0.2 BTC: 0.1 BTC contributed by edonkey, plus the regular 0.1 BTC.

Congratulations again to the winner and big thanks for spicing up the game and of course you get this:

BRAGGING RIGHTS

[Mikestang]

I actually think we will get a near steady diff this next two weeks as bitmain and rest of china on holidays till 9th.

I think Bitmain should already have all of their S7s deployed, right?  So I expect the next diff jumps to include all of the S7s that have been shipped out around the world.  I though we'd see a big jump this time, but we took a negative dive right at the beginning, then climbed back to +2.5%.  If we didn't start this adjustment negative then the + adjustment would have been much greater, but still not much more than 5%.  Of course 5% adjustment today is a much larger number than a 5% adjustment a year ago.  I've been mining only a couple months but the diff has grown 50% in the time I've been active, ~40G to 60G today, wow!

[RichBC]

Congrats to edonkey and thanks for the rollover. Yes I think we were lucky this time round. We might also be lucky on the next one because of the Holiday delaying shipments? However.. if we are lucky on the next one, the one after that is going to be a bigggeee. 

Rich

[VirosaGITS]

I actually think we will get a near steady diff this next two weeks as bitmain and rest of china on holidays till 9th.

I think Bitmain should already have all of their S7s deployed, right?  So I expect the next diff jumps to include all of the S7s that have been shipped out around the world.  I though we'd see a big jump this time, but we took a negative dive right at the beginning, then climbed back to +2.5%.  If we didn't start this adjustment negative then the + adjustment would have been much greater, but still not much more than 5%.  Of course 5% adjustment today is a much larger number than a 5% adjustment a year ago.  I've been mining only a couple months but the diff has grown 50% in the time I've been active, ~40G to 60G today, wow!

There's still people complaining that Batch 1 didn't ship out for them yet, while they already paid for it. Meanwhile there's batch 2 and 3 for less price than they paid and they didnt even ship them out yet.

Sound to me like there's going to be a lot of complaining for a while.

TLDR: The full scope of Batch 1/2/3 is yet to be seen. But i'm sure we could extrapolate by stalking Bitmain's btc address and transaction trail.

[notlist3d]

I actually think we will get a near steady diff this next two weeks as bitmain and rest of china on holidays till 9th.

I think Bitmain should already have all of their S7s deployed, right?  So I expect the next diff jumps to include all of the S7s that have been shipped out around the world.  I though we'd see a big jump this time, but we took a negative dive right at the beginning, then climbed back to +2.5%.  If we didn't start this adjustment negative then the + adjustment would have been much greater, but still not much more than 5%.  Of course 5% adjustment today is a much larger number than a 5% adjustment a year ago.  I've been mining only a couple months but the diff has grown 50% in the time I've been active, ~40G to 60G today, wow!

There's still people complaining that Batch 1 didn't ship out for them yet, while they already paid for it. Meanwhile there's batch 2 and 3 for less price than they paid and they didnt even ship them out yet.

Sound to me like there's going to be a lot of complaining for a while.

TLDR: The full scope of Batch 1/2/3 is yet to be seen. But i'm sure we could extrapolate by stalking Bitmain's btc address and transaction trail.

I have a feeling some will be issued coupons.   Don't know if they will be worth the delay though.  But with the holiday it's pretty amazing some will have missed the 10 day window  after listed.   

So i personally wonder if maybe they oversold the first batch compared to what they had made, or if they simply did not get them shipped out.  Either way I think we will see batch one shipped out before 2-3.  But still will be some not happy in batch 1 if they dont get something for delay.  And in past they have done coupons a lot.  On L1 that they completely decided not to do it was a refund of it + a little amount or a coupon I believe if I rember right.  Been a long time since L1 happenings.

[suchmoon]

So i personally wonder if maybe they oversold the first batch compared to what they had made, or if they simply did not get them shipped out.  Either way I think we will see batch one shipped out before 2-3.  But still will be some not happy in batch 1 if they dont get something for delay.  And in past they have done coupons a lot.  On L1 that they completely decided not to do it was a refund of it + a little amount or a coupon I believe if I rember right.  Been a long time since L1 happenings.

For the L1 they refunded using the original USD price, which due to a drop in BTC exchange rate was a good deal. And they gave extra BTC if you took the refund as a coupon.

Something like that would be nice for the S7 B1 but there is no competition now so Bitmain might just throw their "10 days" excuse at us. If there was a compensation planned then yesterday (before the holiday) would have been a good time to announce it or at least assure that shipments will happen before the 10th.

[VirosaGITS]

So i personally wonder if maybe they oversold the first batch compared to what they had made, or if they simply did not get them shipped out.  Either way I think we will see batch one shipped out before 2-3.  But still will be some not happy in batch 1 if they dont get something for delay.  And in past they have done coupons a lot.  On L1 that they completely decided not to do it was a refund of it + a little amount or a coupon I believe if I rember right.  Been a long time since L1 happenings.

For the L1 they refunded using the original USD price, which due to a drop in BTC exchange rate was a good deal. And they gave extra BTC if you took the refund as a coupon.

Something like that would be nice for the S7 B1 but there is no competition now so Bitmain might just throw their "10 days" excuse at us. If there was a compensation planned then yesterday (before the holiday) would have been a good time to announce it or at least assure that shipments will happen before the 10th.

Maybe they feel its redundant to always address customer's concerns with "Your concerns will be addressed." over and over and over again. I mean their communication isint really up to snuff when they use "Second hand S5" for their last S5 batch that was used hardware but not second hand at all.

But the 10 days iirc was from 21 to 30 sept? So every day now is one more officially "late" day.

[philipma1957]

Okay going to lock this one.

the new one is here.


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