Diff thread July 18 to Aug 1st? picks are Now closed! prize = $50 usd

[NeuroticFish]

Looks like he was very lucky.

@ Veves1  please contact me with a BTC address for your prize.




On a different  note  I am on the hook at bitfinex   for funds.

Although my coins were all ETC and ETH

I have more then 700 usd worth of them.

If it is a full loss of 55ETC and 51ETH  I will have to end this contest.


@ Veves1   I have funds for you.

Woah. I hope it's not that bad and the loses are not big.
Normally they should have a big part of the funds on cold storage.

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[Biodom]

Sorry about it, Phil.
Since this is about to be locked, i would post my thoughts here, feel free to delete.

I am in kind of sour mood about recent developments.
As i see it, some bitcoiners got jealous of ethereum, hacked the DAO.
Ethereum foundation released a half-baked hard fork in response, which was supported by large numbers of users anyway.
Some bitcoiners wanted to support eth classic in lieu of such fork, did not let unforked chain die, causing 35% decrease in eth value while propping an alternative chain for, perhaps, the sole reasons of eventually dumping hacked ETC there.
Someone (maybe from ethereum side, just a reasonable guess) hacked bitfinex, causing 18% decrease in btc value, which is LARGER than the total market cap of ethereum.
As i see it, crypto space has become a toxic soup where very intelligent people try to up each other while regular folks suffer as a consequence.

I don't like where this is going.

[Mikestang]

On a different  note  I am on the hook at bitfinex   for funds.

Although my coins were all ETC and ETH

I have more then 700 usd worth of them.

If it is a full loss of 55ETC and 51ETH  I will have to end this contest.

Dang, Phil, I am sorry to hear that!  Not just for your monetary loss, but the loss to this forum and community of this speculation game should you no longer be able to continue it.  I don't know if it would be worth your effort, but even without the prize it would still be fun to guess and speculate and keep these threads going.  Just a thought, hope you get some good news.

[merelcoin]

On a different  note  I am on the hook at bitfinex   for funds.

Although my coins were all ETC and ETH

I have more then 700 usd worth of them.

If it is a full loss of 55ETC and 51ETH  I will have to end this contest.

Dang, Phil, I am sorry to hear that!  Not just for your monetary loss, but the loss to this forum and community of this speculation game should you no longer be able to continue it.  I don't know if it would be worth your effort, but even without the prize it would still be fun to guess and speculate and keep these threads going.  Just a thought, hope you get some good news.

I'd have to agree... Altough i seldomly post in these threads other than taking an (sometimes educated) guess, i'm still following your threads on an allmost daily basis . I'd still keep guessing once in a while even if there was no price.

[tertius993]

Can't believe how that difficulty period went - most odd with the falling price, and My guess was out by a country mile.

[veves1]

I won !!!

philipma1957   USD, ETH, ETC, LTC  don't  have been stolen  ,  only BTC /   anyway   it's   very bad news

good day for all .

[vapourminer]

congrats veves!

phil.. that bitfinex thing truly sucks.  hopefully you will come out ok.

[philipma1957]

payment made.


https://blockchain.info/tx/91f03947214e8853119b3cd06ad380aba49afb14e5f8cab10c62acf2557da319



going to lock this up.


and by the way  the hash rate is rising!


new thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1573186.0


and the numbers for diff are below:

Difficulty History

Date   Difficulty   Change   Hash Rate
Aug 02 2016   201,893,210,853   -5.43%   1,445,207,896 GH/s
Jul 18 2016   213,492,501,108   0.04%   1,528,238,850 GH/s
Jul 04 2016   213,398,925,331   1.88%   1,527,569,009 GH/s
Jun 21 2016   209,453,158,595   6.83%   1,499,324,110 GH/s
Jun 08 2016   196,061,423,940   -1.63%   1,403,462,340 GH/s
May 24 2016   199,312,067,531   2.60%   1,426,731,353 GH/s
May 11 2016   194,254,820,283   8.73%   1,390,530,167 GH/s
Apr 28 2016   178,659,257,773   -0.01%   1,278,892,782 GH/s
Apr 14 2016   178,678,307,672   7.09%   1,279,029,147 GH/s
Apr 01 2016   166,851,513,283   0.82%   1,194,369,655 GH/s
Mar 18 2016   165,496,835,118   4.46%   1,184,672,491 GH/s
Mar 04 2016   158,427,203,767   -3.10%   1,134,066,098 GH/s
Feb 19 2016   163,491,654,909   13.44%   1,170,318,852 GH/s
Feb 07 2016   144,116,447,847   20.06%   1,031,625,717 GH/s
Jan 26 2016   120,033,340,651   5.89%   859,232,121 GH/s
Jan 13 2016   113,354,299,801   9.12%   811,421,684 GH/s
Dec 31 2015   103,880,340,815   11.16%   743,604,444 GH/s
Dec 18 2015   93,448,670,796         18.14%   668,931,642 GH/s
Dec 06 2015   79,102,380,900         8.77%   566,236,898 GH/s
Nov 24 2015   72,722,780,643        10.44%   520,569,941 GH/s
Nov 11 2015   65,848,255,180   5.77%   471,360,171 GH/s
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
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[philipma1957]

Okay first off VRobb  was the winner of last contest 50 usd in btc.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1538811.msg15471616#msg15471616
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1538811.msg15630301#msg15630301
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1538811.msg15630787#msg15630787




 So  a >>>>>     New game.

PICKS BEGIN AT 1116


When game began about 20 months ago coins were about 200 usd  0.10 btc was about 20 usd. we paid  in .10 btc numbers.  Our first donator to the game  spent over 2.8 coins.  I have been the sole payer for the last 4 months and have paid .9 coins  so 3.7 coins have been awarded for free, nada, nothing  no cost.  I am still able to do this due to my signature fee.  Which I put into payments here.


First rule is I decide all rules since it is a free chance to get some coin.
Second rule is you need to be  a forum member since April 15th of 2016
Third rule is you need to have made 30 posts.  I will read them and decide if you appear to be real.
Fourth rule is if I think you are double dipping your picks won't be allowed
Fifth rule is we open picks at 1116 and end picks at 716   just about 2.5 days to pick.
Sixth rule is  this is for fun so I tend to allow off topic and don't delete very much.
Seventh rule is your pick should look like  -1.2 = philipma1957 or   +1.2 = philipma1957
Eight rule is  if you pick a used pick I will assign a pick to you and you are stuck with the one I assign.
Ninth rule no pick changes
Tenth rule no pre picks via pm's
Eleven rule no late picks.

Anything I missed above feel free to mention.

I self mod due to seriouscoin
I always pick -1.2 due to seriouscoin




https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Bitcoin Difficulty:   213,492,501,108
Estimated Next Difficulty:   213,066,572,865 (-0.20%)

Adjust time:   After 1988 Blocks, About 13.7 days
Hashrate(?):   1,615,967,409 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):   
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.8 minutes
6 blocks: 59.5 minutes
Updated:   23:20 (2.3 minutes ago)

current numbers above  I notice some graph issues between two websites.
bitcoinwisdom seems to have a false spike

I need to look into the issue.  if we need to change sites for official diff numbers I will