25BTC reward but.. no drop in hash rate!

[DoomDumas]

Still running my GPUs for a little profit.. BUT, I appreciate that the temperature of my entertainment room in the basement is 22 Celcuis, instead of less than 15 without mining

[kwoody]

proportionately according to the pie chart at bitcoinwatch.com "unknown" has been getting pretty massive, so new hashing devices whatever they may be are still getting turned on, big farms that are solo mining? hopefully not a single user trying to interfere with network operation? banks? the majority of blocks are being relayed by a node somewhere in europe, 93.174.55.27 , seems to be relaying 10 or so blocks a day pretty consistently ...

[BkkCoins]

proportionately according to the pie chart at bitcoinwatch.com "unknown" has been getting pretty massive, so new hashing devices whatever they may be are still getting turned on, big farms that are solo mining? hopefully not a single user trying to interfere with network operation? banks? the majority of blocks are being relayed by a node somewhere in europe, 93.174.55.27 , seems to be relaying 10 or so blocks a day pretty consistently ...

I believe that's 50btc.com. They consistently don't get identified but if you go look at the block they claim solving on their web site they show up there. eg. 210682, 210650 are both on 50btc.com solved list and have that IP according to blockchain.info.

[Badonkadonk]

isnt p2pool a big part off the "unknown"?

[ajareselde]

ASIC devices are mining for a long time now. doubt its just me being pesimistic. so far it allways has been +2% increase , then like -1,2% and so on , it was allways going up and down, but last months it increases like mad without stopping.
asics are mining, thats why they are still not shipped anywhere.

imho ofc

[DobZombie]

Why would people still mine at profitability close to zero? makes no sense to me.

People that need to support their SR Shopping?  Plus you don't have to deal with an exchange.

I'd rather build a bitcoin miner than go through MtGox

[cabin]

isnt p2pool a big part off the "unknown"?

They are usually counted, but it seems not at the moment. In any case that is just 2 blocks per day on average, not a huge amount.