Difficulty Dropping, Prices Rising

[carborundum]

Looks like a dream combination.... There has to be a crash coming!

[Peter Lambert]

Looks like a dream combination.... There has to be a crash coming!

Or, more likely, the difficulty will go up quite a bit in the near future.

[theowalpott]

The higher the difficulty, the more variance you should expect. Right now the general trend is still a slight (%-wise) increase in difficulty. Difficulty tends to follow price, not the other way round.

[porcupine87]

looks crashy, crashy

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Price drives mining rewards which determine the number of miners and thus the difficulty. But the beauty of bitcoin is that no one knows what will happen next that will send bitcoin up 100% or down 50%. At this point, I'm just enjoying the ride.