Mining Namecoins is now 2x more profitable than Bitcoins

[nebiki]

sup?

[Iyeman]

as soon as the diff rises in 2 days, the theoretical exchange rate would be at 0.0556 (http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php). even if it doesn't rise that much, you could probably still make profit when you buy now as much as you can and then wait 2-3 weeks to sell.

or the price drops again and you loose a couple of btc

Yeah the key will be keeping everyone mining and NOT selling until it goes to .0556 or higher...Don't stop mining just because the market hasn't adjusted yet.

[pennytrader]

The exchange rate has little to do with the difficulty (as proven by the recent USD/BTC exchange rate). The difficulty (or the difficulty change more accurately) will somehow affected by the exchange rate though. Looking at the historical data, it seems namecoin used to traded at 0.1BTC.

[joulesbeef]

subsidize a 2 day profit bonanza for people who mine in 2 days what you will mine in the following 40

have you seen future predictions of the next difficulty.. it is going to take them 80 days to kill that beast.

The exchange rate has little to do with the difficulty (as proven by the recent USD/BTC exchange rate

you cant mine dollars.  The point of the price reaching parity is miners going back and forth until it does.


Price isnt reflecting the current difficulty as the current difficulty will only last days.. the price is reflecting futures.. and it looks like the difficulty will rise greatly in a couple of days.

IMO anyways

[Iyeman]

The exchange rate has little to do with the difficulty

But it does have to do with weather people stay here mining or go back to Bitcoins.  which is related to difficulty and the price they can sell what they mine immediately to the exchange.

(as proven by the recent USD/BTC exchange rate)

You can't use the same comparison, the USD/BTC exchange rate has little effect on the NMC/BTC exchange rate.


The higher difficulty in nmc means that the price HAS to go up for miners to continue mining NMC or they will switch back to BTC to "profit" in the shirt term.

[imperi]

subsidize a 2 day profit bonanza for people who mine in 2 days what you will mine in the following 40

have you seen future predictions of the next difficulty.. it is going to take them 80 days to kill that beast.

The exchange rate has little to do with the difficulty (as proven by the recent USD/BTC exchange rate

you cant mine dollars.  The point of the price reaching parity is miners going back and forth until it does.


Price isnt reflecting the current difficulty as the current difficulty will only last days.. the price is reflecting futures.. and it looks like the difficulty will rise greatly in a couple of days.

IMO anyways

It won't take 80 days. The difficulty can only go up 4x. Get educated. Go to school. Don't do drugs.

[talldude]

subsidize a 2 day profit bonanza for people who mine in 2 days what you will mine in the following 40

have you seen future predictions of the next difficulty.. it is going to take them 80 days to kill that beast.

The exchange rate has little to do with the difficulty (as proven by the recent USD/BTC exchange rate

you cant mine dollars.  The point of the price reaching parity is miners going back and forth until it does.


Price isnt reflecting the current difficulty as the current difficulty will only last days.. the price is reflecting futures.. and it looks like the difficulty will rise greatly in a couple of days.

IMO anyways

It won't take 80 days. The difficulty can only go up 4x. Get educated. Go to school. Don't do drugs.

It took nearly a month to finish out difficulty ~50k...if the same thing happens, it's going to take almost double that, or worst case, more people leave than before and it'll take even longer. This will essentially create a NMC shortage during the next difficulty cycle which should cause an increase in the price of NMC.

[miningnew]

I am mining namecoin on https://poolmunity.com and it shows me

Estimated earnings:0.58554149

Can this be right Oo??? I am mining with 1,1 Ghash the calculator shows me i am supposed to get 46 a day.

[pennytrader]

subsidize a 2 day profit bonanza for people who mine in 2 days what you will mine in the following 40

have you seen future predictions of the next difficulty.. it is going to take them 80 days to kill that beast.

The exchange rate has little to do with the difficulty (as proven by the recent USD/BTC exchange rate

you cant mine dollars.  The point of the price reaching parity is miners going back and forth until it does.


Price isnt reflecting the current difficulty as the current difficulty will only last days.. the price is reflecting futures.. and it looks like the difficulty will rise greatly in a couple of days.

IMO anyways

It won't take 80 days. The difficulty can only go up 4x. Get educated. Go to school. Don't do drugs.

It took nearly a month to finish out difficulty ~50k...if the same thing happens, it's going to take almost double that, or worst case, more people leave than before and it'll take even longer. This will essentially create a NMC shortage during the next difficulty cycle which should cause an increase in the price of NMC.

totally false logic. Why did the price drop when the difficulty at 50K then? As you said, it took a month so it created a namecoin shortage as well.

[talldude]

totally false logic. Why did the price drop when the difficulty at 50K then? As you said, it took a month so it created a namecoin shortage as well.

There's two parts to price, supply and demand. Obviously the demand wasn't there, so the price lagged parity with BTC, so people left NMC mining for BTC mining.

Also, you'll see that I said *SHOULD* which is based on the assumption that demand won't fall (probably should have stated this assumption). It's the future, it's uncertain - this is my take on it.

[Oldminer]

Been mining NM for approx 18 hrs now @ 640 MHash/s - found zip LOL

[joker060]

Can anyone post a detailed how to on setting up solo mining?

When I start namecoind (on Windows 7) via command prompt it does nothing and says nothing.

[pennytrader]

totally false logic. Why did the price drop when the difficulty at 50K then? As you said, it took a month so it created a namecoin shortage as well.

There's two parts to price, supply and demand. Obviously the demand wasn't there, so the price lagged parity with BTC, so people left NMC mining for BTC mining.

Also, you'll see that I said *SHOULD* which is based on the assumption that demand won't fall (probably should have stated this assumption). It's the future, it's uncertain - this is my take on it.

Alright, I buy that. Nobody has the cystal ball but I'm continue selling while mining namecoin (and I could regret tomorrow

[Oldminer]

Can anyone post a detailed how to on setting up solo mining?

When I start namecoind (on Windows 7) via command prompt it does nothing and says nothing.

All you have done is start the solo server. You need to setup a miner too.

[talldude]

Can anyone post a detailed how to on setting up solo mining?

When I start namecoind (on Windows 7) via command prompt it does nothing and says nothing.

That's your server window. It will stay blank. Open up a new command prompt to give commands to the server and type in namecoind help for a list of commands.

[JohnDoe]

The idea is to keep NMC mining as profitable as BTC mining. If the exchange rate is even slightly (let's say 1%) higher than BTC, you can earn 1% more by mining NMC and selling them - something a LOT of people might do and that would be MUCH cheaper for NMC enthusiasts than mining NMC at a 25-40% loss.

That's the idea but I doubt it will happen. The value of NMC would have to rally past .056 by Sunday. If it ends up short even a little then most miners will go back to Bitcoin and probably end up panic selling their remaining NMC. Then the value will hover below the difficulty rate and we'll have a slow ass cycle yet again.

It won't take 80 days. The difficulty can only go up 4x. Get educated. Go to school. Don't do drugs.

How long it takes is completely dependent on how much mining power remains after the retarget. It could take 8 days or 800.

[MaGNeT]

I just made myself a promise:

When difficulty goes up I leave one GPU mining Namecoins (427Mhash/s @ PoolMunity) to keep the network going.
If 1 out of 10 does that, Namecoin might "survive" this increase quickly.

[jackjack]

I just made myself a promise:

When difficulty goes up I leave one GPU mining Namecoins (427Mhash/s @ PoolMunity) to keep the network going.
If 1 out of 10 does that, Namecoin might "survive" this increase quickly.

Good idea, I'm with you with 350Mhps

[Sukrim]

The idea is to keep NMC mining as profitable as BTC mining. If the exchange rate is even slightly (let's say 1%) higher than BTC, you can earn 1% more by mining NMC and selling them - something a LOT of people might do and that would be MUCH cheaper for NMC enthusiasts than mining NMC at a 25-40% loss.

That's the idea but I doubt it will happen. The value of NMC would have to rally past .056 by Sunday. If it ends up short even a little then most miners will go back to Bitcoin and probably end up panic selling their remaining NMC. Then the value will hover below the difficulty rate and we'll have a slow ass cycle yet again.

If BTC are worth slightly more, all you need to do is to mine BTC and buy NMC for 0.0557 instead of 0.0556 BTC a piece, as many as possible and untill difficulty changes (most likely up again).

If all NMC enthusiasts do this, they get far more hash rate for NMC by arbitrage miners + far smaller losses than mining NMC directly. It might even induce another speculative upward swing like what's happening right now, where people are buying NMC like crazy in the hopes that they get worth 0.0556 or more, so you could even make real profits by short term subsidizing NMC mining with a fairly small amount of BTC alltogether.

[Iyeman]

If BTC are worth slightly more, all you need to do is to mine BTC and buy NMC for 0.0557 instead of 0.0556 BTC a piece, as many as possible and untill difficulty changes (most likely up again).

people HAVE to still mine NMC or the difficulty will not change, and the transactions will not process...


What is needed is a blend of people speculating on NMC while mining BTC and people mining NMC to process those transactions and get to the next difficulty change, and while mining NOT sell at a loss, but hold out and drive the price to an equilibrium.  Will this happen? we will see.  Once this boom is over, i myself plan to mine with 1/3rd of my mining power in NMC and the other 2/3's in BTC.  And hope that the merged mining project comes to a point it can be implemented.