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December 16, 2013, 11:17:54 PM |
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I was just looking at my wallet, and I noticed that my automatic payouts were much further apart then normal. So I took a look at the current Litecoin difficultly and was very surprised. I had remembered LTC having a pretty stable difficultly, without a lot of variance. However, it looks like it has recently tripped.
Date Difficulty Change Hash Rate Dec 16 2013 3,094 5.74% 88,604 MH/s Dec 12 2013 2,927 8.60% 83,795 MH/s Dec 09 2013 2,695 21.44% 77,158 MH/s Dec 06 2013 2,219 12.93% 63,534 MH/s Dec 03 2013 1,965 13.30% 56,259 MH/s Nov 30 2013 1,734 13.89% 49,654 MH/s Oct 31 2013 1,080 -6.59% 30,934 MH/s Sep 30 2013 1,064 -9.02% 30,475 MH/s Sep 01 2013 1,102 17.92% 31,563 MH/s Jul 25 2013 913 2.10% 26,142 MH/s
Any ideas what the driving factor of this might be? I know bitcoin (and my proxy, litecoin) has greatly raised in price the month or two, but this is a major increase to the network's mining speed. This is basically suggesting that the number of GPU miners tripped in the last two months.
Has there been any updates on possible ASICs that are able to mine scrypt-coins?
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