Bytecoin difficulty change

[cshelswell]

So there's only 748 blocks until the Bytecoin difficulty change. Any predictions up or down?

I'm thinking down then everyone will jump on it with asics so it'll be a short lived dip.

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[meta.p02]

Predict a brief drop to 25K, then spike to 100K and death.

I am strongly against merged-mining, but merged-mining increasingly looks like the final, faded-out fate of Bytecoin.

[cshelswell]

I hope not but I wonder if you might be right. There's lots of other coins that seem to be holding their ground. Perhaps it's the quick re-targetting that allows them to do that?

[meta.p02]

For a small coin, a block retarget of 2016 is death. See Nibble and CHNCoin for the scrypt counterpart.