Diff thread Apr 14 to Apr 28? picks are now closed.... prize = 0.2 btc

[HerbPean]

all good news coins on coin base  are 458.

*just focusing on this rest above

I have said for a few difficulty periods I would be happy hitting 450... and we blew threw sell wall's.  I could not be happier right now seeing increase past what I thought.   I do admit after being in this game so long my speculation is not the most optomistic as I try to stay grounded... and weather good and bad.

But to almost be 460.. WOW.. we are going places.  Is this a sign before having we will see a nice increase? I sure hope so!   I don't think investors will wait till near having... so hopefully we see a nice build up well before. 

And all of this helps miners as we are competing with mega mines at this point.

Maybe the ½ ing price bounce is coming?   Would be nice to see a strong price lift here.

That would be awesome !

[mavericklm]

Atm:
Estimated Next Difficulty:   184,783,862,033 (+3.42%)
Adjust time:   After 533 Blocks, About 3.6 days
Hashrate(?):   1,297,692,052 GH/s
&
over 450$ on a lot of exchanges!

[Mikestang]

Difficulty is trending toward flat right now, the mystery peaky hash power appears to be turning off as the adjustment period comes to an end again.  Smart people to play with hundreds of PH this way and not have a large effect of difficulty.

[philipma1957]

Difficulty is trending toward flat right now, the mystery peaky hash power appears to be turning off as the adjustment period comes to an end again.  Smart people to play with hundreds of PH this way and not have a large effect of difficulty.

No sense to hash against your self.

price is $ 456 at coinbase.


https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Bitcoin Difficulty:   178,678,307,672
Estimated Next Difficulty:   183,855,559,308 (+2.90%)  pretty good
Adjust time:   After 511 Blocks, About 3.5 days
Hashrate(?):   1,278,483,762 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.8 minutes
3 blocks: 29.6 minutes
6 blocks: 59.1 minutes
Updated:   10:35 (4.9 minutes ago)

[TheYankeesWin!]

Looks like no block in more then 45 minutes very nice.

[notlist3d]

Coinbase hit 463, so still looking very nice.  I'm very happy to be over 460. And bitwisdom went down a little bit:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    178,678,307,672
Estimated Next Difficulty:    183,619,602,355 (+2.77%)
Adjust time:    After 463 Blocks, About 3.2 days
Hashrate(?):    1,252,857,517 GH/s

So lower difficulty change and a big upswing on price.  This has the making of a great difficulty change period.

[philipma1957]

It would be very nice to see   the diff drop under 2%.

I knew selling those 9 coins two days ago was going to hurt me.  I sold at 450

[RichBC]

It would be very nice to see   the diff drop under 2%.

I knew selling those 9 coins two days ago was going to hurt me.  I sold at 450

Wow what a pull back. Yesterday -8.32% with 132 Blocks and Today's Run rate is very low. In making my pick I was torn between +3% & +4% never even considered we might see as low as +0.9% which is where we are after a very long Block 7 Hours in....


Rich

[philipma1957]

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Bitcoin Difficulty:   178,678,307,672
Estimated Next Difficulty:   181,826,644,666 (+1.76%)
Adjust time:   After 402 Blocks, About 2.8 days
Hashrate(?):   1,220,282,857 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 10.0 minutes
3 blocks: 29.9 minutes
6 blocks: 59.8 minutes
Updated:   7:25 (1.6 minutes ago)

price is 461 a coin.

we were at 427 on the start of this jump

so 427 to 461 = 7.96%

and diff jump is under 2%


That pattern would make the ½ ing a non issue if it continued for 1 year

[HerbPean]

It's like someone just turned off 150 Peta ... doesn't smell good. Bitfury upgrading old hardware ?

[philipma1957]

I suspect a few things , but for now it looks pretty good for this jump.

That same 100 -200 ph since late Nov on and off for more then 5 ½ months.

[HerbPean]

I suspect a few things , but for now it looks pretty good for this jump.

That same 100 -200 ph since late Nov on and off for more then 5 ½ months.

Yeah this is wayyyyyyyyy better then me theory

[Mikestang]

It's like someone just turned off 150 Peta ... doesn't smell good. Bitfury upgrading old hardware ?

Holy cow yea, maybe even more than that.  Look at the huge drop in hash rate!  I think a large hardware upgrade is coming to a farm, I don't think this is the same peak power we've seen on and off, this is something more.

[philipma1957]

It's like someone just turned off 150 Peta ... doesn't smell good. Bitfury upgrading old hardware ?

Holy cow yea, maybe even more than that.  Look at the huge drop in hash rate!  I think a large hardware upgrade is coming to a farm, I don't think this is the same peak power we've seen on and off, this is something more.

well best case is  it stays off two jumps and does not fully fire back until the end of may.

for now  this has been a very good diff  


price went from 421 to 464  thats 10%


https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Bitcoin Difficulty:   178,678,307,672
Estimated Next Difficulty:   181,855,605,473 (+1.78%)     << really nice
Adjust time:   After 363 Blocks, About 2.5 days
Hashrate(?):   1,217,808,496 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.9 minutes
6 blocks: 59.7 minutes
Updated:   13:45 (3.3 minutes ago)





   
Final picks  

-1.2% = philipma1957  and if it wins I will roll it over.

+1.1 = mavericklm
+1.2 = NeuroticFish

+1.6 = jmumich
+2.0 = HerbPean
+2.5 = Veves1
+2.7 = edonkey
+3.0 = adaseb
+3.7 = Cuidler

+3.9 = VRobb
+4.0 = RichBC
+4.2 = VirosaGITS
+4.3 = Notlist3d
+4.4 = ATguy
+4.5 = Ankara


the ones above look best for now


look at the drop!!!

[Mikestang]

Instantaneously we're sitting at like -4%.



And it keeps trending down.  How low can you go, how low can you go?  Let's do the difficulty limbo!

[philipma1957]

Instantaneously we're sitting at like -4%.



And it keeps trending down.  How low can you go, how low can you go?  Let's do the difficulty limbo!

this year we had a 117 block day.  = -27 

  feb 24th 2016

maybe we get that low today


https://blockchain.info/blocks


408886 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 18:12:24

408792 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 00:19:49   


95 blocks in 18 hours and 12 minutes     this is - 14 blocks

109 is normal  for this amount of time.


Maybe we go under 120 blocks on the day.

[HerbPean]

Looks like we are going back up ;-)

[philipma1957]

Looks like we are going back up ;-)

https://blockchain.info/blocks

408904 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 21:48:28


408792 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 00:19:49


113 blocks in about 22 hours  should be 132

so  we are 19 blocks under today

[HerbPean]

Looks like we are going back up ;-)

https://blockchain.info/blocks

408904 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 21:48:28


408792 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 00:19:49


113 blocks in about 22 hours  should be 132

so  we are 19 blocks under today

Yeah, my affirmation is wrong, we are still steady at the moment. I was sure the hashrate was going back up ;-)

[notlist3d]

Looks like we are going back up ;-)

https://blockchain.info/blocks

408904 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 21:48:28


408792 (Main Chain)   2016-04-25 00:19:49


113 blocks in about 22 hours  should be 132

so  we are 19 blocks under today

Yeah, my affirmation is wrong, we are still steady at the moment. I was sure the hashrate was going back up ;-)

What scares me is once they get next gen chips lined out.   Then speculation goes out the door it's all guessing.  The good news is still the price.  Man has it been w a good week on it.

Going around 468... I mean we might hit 500 in not to long if it keeps this up which is great.