A question on LTC mining. (I'm out as of now..just curious).
Bitmain has a deal I heard of $80 million dollars of equipment with Utility Swap for excess Hydro Power above and beyond use (wasted) with various
China Utils in a 50/50 swap of some sort for essentially free electric for 1/2 the mining on equipment already owned. (I'd like that deal).
https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-bitcoin-mining-farms-antminerAnyway, has anyone heard if Bitmain is doing the same in mass with LTC mining, or is this all or mostly just BTC as a purely, summer operation for 4 months or so
till the expected excess hydro from excessive rainfall in China is burned up?
Folk have said from the BTC mining side they expect a jump in difficulty over the summer due to the above of at least 33% if not more...before Bitmain's
past equipment (BTC) is no longer profitable even for them. The last hurrah as it were...just wondering if we needed to watch our back on LTC mining as well
with the above and are included in such a cluster of 33% rise in difficulty for LTC as well.
later
edit: according to the article above it was like 7.9% increase for Bitmain doing BTC..but other sources I've heard said closer to 33% if they take off
from the BCH network. We will see. Damn, a 33% difficulty in LTC would really suck...even a 5-10% would suck for the age of scrypt-pow miners out there
in the world, even figuring they have already paid for themselves (mostly Bitmain L3's and L3+'s I'd assume)
Chinese Curse: May you live in interesting times.