Diff thread oct 29th to Nov 12th picks are closed!! With a bonus reward.

[philipma1957]

Last diff was +2.25% DanielRo won it by the slim margin of .01%

He has decided to roll the compac stick bonus into this prize period. Thank you.

So this winner gets .1btc  and 1  sidehack compac stick

The bonus reward is this stick.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1086011.0  it was the second tester stick










Difficulty History

Date                   Difficulty        Change   Hash Rate


Oct 29 2015   62,253,982,450   2.25%   445,631,364 GH/s


Oct 15 2015   60,883,825,480   0.12%   435,823,399 GH/s
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


thread is locked for now.

[philipma1957]

Threads open. picks start on the 300th block.

I go with my usual


 -1.01% to -1.25%


hey coins are up to 310!

[ezeminer]

Threads open. picks start on the 300th block.

I go with my usual


 -1.01% to -1.25%


hey coins are up to 310!

Hey coins are wild today

[notlist3d]

Threads open. picks start on the 300th block.

I go with my usual


 -1.01% to -1.25%


hey coins are up to 310!

Hey coins are wild today

Today's high was: $318.72 which is pretty amazing.  It dipped to around 310, but I'm having trouble being sad with a number over 300.  I thought it would take a few weeks to get  over 300 hurdle.... nope just a day. 

My hope is we don't drop under 300 though if some decide to sell a few coins.

[RichBC]

Today's high was: $318.72 which is pretty amazing.  It dipped to around 310, but I'm having trouble being sad with a number over 300.  I thought it would take a few weeks to get  over 300 hurdle.... nope just a day. 

My hope is we don't drop under 300 though if some decide to sell a few coins.

Have to say I expected some resitance around $300 but it seems to have blasted through, must be a pull back at some point? This will be a very interesting difficulty period.  I think we are due for a biggeeee.

Rich

[suchmoon]

Threads open. picks start on the 300th block.

I go with my usual


 -1.01% to -1.25%


hey coins are up to 310!

Hey coins are wild today

Today's high was: $318.72 which is pretty amazing.  It dipped to around 310, but I'm having trouble being sad with a number over 300.  I thought it would take a few weeks to get  over 300 hurdle.... nope just a day. 

My hope is we don't drop under 300 though if some decide to sell a few coins.

My electric bill is coming due. You've been warned 

[Mikestang]

Coin price is strong and getting stronger, we finally got over the dip that XT caused.  I think we'll see sub-5% for most of this winter, 70G network difficulty coming soon! 

[philipma1957]

Coin price is strong and getting stronger, we finally got over the dip that XT caused.  I think we'll see sub-5% for most of this winter, 70G network difficulty coming soon! 

if btc wants to average 10% while diff averages 5% it works for me.

when coins were at 1000 usd the best gear was about 2 watts and diff was tiny.

we can sit and argue that btc was overvalued back in nov of 2013 and we can sit and argue coins are undervalued at 310 in nov of 2015.

truth is the history of btc is too short to really get an idea of the true worth of a coin.

I would like to see coins doing a nice upward move for the next two months out pacing the diff.

An amazing thing my two batch 1 s-3's are still pulling in a profit (2.5 cent power costs)

[tlhIlwI]

For optimum BTC after power cost, I had to turn UP the max voltage on my SP20s with the last diff change.  They at now at 0.71V (1.4T-1.5T each).  I never imagined I would be running these so high after 10 months of mining.  I even made ROI during the last diff.  I'm not complaining!

[RichBC]

Coin price is strong and getting stronger, we finally got over the dip that XT caused.  I think we'll see sub-5% for most of this winter, 70G network difficulty coming soon! 

if btc wants to average 10% while diff averages 5% it works for me.

when coins were at 1000 usd the best gear was about 2 watts and diff was tiny.

we can sit and argue that btc was overvalued back in nov of 2013 and we can sit and argue coins are undervalued at 310 in nov of 2015.

truth is the history of btc is too short to really get an idea of the true worth of a coin.

I would like to see coins doing a nice upward move for the next two months out pacing the diff.

An amazing thing my two batch 1 s-3's are still pulling in a profit (2.5 cent power costs)

Just kicking myself for not having begged, stealed or borrowed when we were down at $220.... Oh well will just have to settle for cranking the Miners up to max and generate what I can now.

Rich

[philipma1957]

Coin price is strong and getting stronger, we finally got over the dip that XT caused.  I think we'll see sub-5% for most of this winter, 70G network difficulty coming soon! 

if btc wants to average 10% while diff averages 5% it works for me.

when coins were at 1000 usd the best gear was about 2 watts and diff was tiny.

we can sit and argue that btc was overvalued back in nov of 2013 and we can sit and argue coins are undervalued at 310 in nov of 2015.

truth is the history of btc is too short to really get an idea of the true worth of a coin.

I would like to see coins doing a nice upward move for the next two months out pacing the diff.

An amazing thing my two batch 1 s-3's are still pulling in a profit (2.5 cent power costs)

Just kicking myself for not having begged, stealed or borrowed when we were down at $220.... Oh well will just have to settle for cranking the Miners up to max and generate what I can now.

Rich

well I pushed hard in late august
I now have 16th in cloud from bitmaintech ----------------- this is ending soon.
2 in hand s-7's
1 hosted s-7
4 s-3's
some sidehack sticks.
comes to just over 31th

I never had 31th working fo me. until this week.
I would love to see a big coin move over 400

[ingiltere]

I was very close last round. I hope this time I can find the right range. Waiting picks to open.

[freedomno1]

I was very close last round. I hope this time I can find the right range. Waiting picks to open.

The price is getting solid again and looking at the Press Section of the forum covers on the economist launches of Bitcoin exchanges and the overall market sentiment leans toward a bullish market and in turn a higher mining difficulty.
The picks and the settlement this round will be fun to watch.

[tss]

bitmain sold out of batch 2 and 3 s7s during the price run up.  if they get delivered as promised i think we can expect to see over 4% this time around

[philipma1957]

Sold a fourth coin today.   got over 325.

all told I sold off 4 coins  1200 for the four.   My power cost will be taken care of until next year.


lets see I burn 2400 plus 500 = 3000 in house that is 72 kwatts a day or 2160 kwatts in a month about 225 plus 87  for the hosted unit

so 312 a month  so I have my power costs taken care of for 4 months.

Lets see us go up and over 400.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Bitcoin Difficulty:   62,253,982,450
Estimated Next Difficulty:   64,211,347,324 (+3.14%)
Adjust time:   After 1870 Blocks, About 12.8 days
Hashrate(?):   446,994,246 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.6 minutes
6 blocks: 59.2 minutes
Updated:   23:50 (3.3 minutes ago)



http://btc.blockr.io/charts


10-29-2015      153                   9 over

[notlist3d]

Sold a fourth coin today.   got over 325.

all told I sold off 4 coins  1200 for the four.   My power cost will be taken care of until next year.


lets see I burn 2400 plus 500 = 3000 in house that is 72 kwatts a day or 2160 kwatts in a month about 225 plus 87  for the hosted unit

so 312 a month  so I have my power costs taken care of for 4 months.

Lets see us go up and over 400.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Bitcoin Difficulty:   62,253,982,450
Estimated Next Difficulty:   64,211,347,324 (+3.14%)
Adjust time:   After 1870 Blocks, About 12.8 days
Hashrate(?):   446,994,246 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.6 minutes
6 blocks: 59.2 minutes
Updated:   23:50 (3.3 minutes ago)



http://btc.blockr.io/charts


10-29-2015      153                   9 over

I am just amazed coinbase is currently 336 on price.  I mean we are over a hundred dollars  higher then where we sit forever.  That is just a huge jump.

And difficulty did not just sky rocket... so it's like to fronts with great news.  I just am loving being a miner right now.   It has been a interesting time to say the least.

[adaseb]

I think the price isn't causing an increase in difficulty because most likely people didn't power off their miners, they just sold them. So they were running the entire time by someone with cheaper electricity.

Even someone powering up an old S1 isn't going to increase the hashrate at all.

[notlist3d]

I think the price isn't causing an increase in difficulty because most likely people didn't power off their miners, they just sold them. So they were running the entire time by someone with cheaper electricity.

Even someone powering up an old S1 isn't going to increase the hashrate at all.

I would agree on the selling of miners.  They just loose value so quick anymore you cant sit them in a corner and not use or each day they loose a little value.  All my old miners I have sold. 

I figure they are each in cheap or "free" electricity places and are running still today on a lot of them.   Some sit and wait till winter but I find this crazy with how they lose value to sit till winter for heat.

[adaseb]

I think the price isn't causing an increase in difficulty because most likely people didn't power off their miners, they just sold them. So they were running the entire time by someone with cheaper electricity.

Even someone powering up an old S1 isn't going to increase the hashrate at all.

I would agree on the selling of miners.  They just loose value so quick anymore you cant sit them in a corner and not use or each day they loose a little value.  All my old miners I have sold. 

I figure they are each in cheap or "free" electricity places and are running still today on a lot of them.   Some sit and wait till winter but I find this crazy with how they lose value to sit till winter for heat.

Yes, I think the only miners sitting and collecting dust are those 30Gh/s Butterfly labs and those USB Stick miners. Everything else is still hashing away.

[Mikestang]

My S1 and S3 are still turned off.  Electricity is so expensive here in so. Cal. that it is almost impossible to mine at a profit.  When it gets cold I'll turn them back on for heat and because I really enjoy mining, but for now it still isn't cost effective for me to run anything except my little usb "farm".