XMR difficulty increase - FPGAs???

[starmax]

XMR difficulty has gone up dramatically the last 3 weeks, are those FPGAs in play now?

https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/monero-difficulty-chart

[swogerino]

It is not like it is a crazy difficulty increase with 2.29% daily in the network of Monero. I think the FPGA-s may be just in but not at full power yet. I see this difficulty change in my home miner though with many 1060 cards which are not doing well, I was doing about 0.32 mBTC daily with 6 cards and now I am only doing just a bit more than 0.24 mBTC daily these last days. The difficulty increase is there but not as crazy as we think it is.

[badbart]

Could it be people switching from eth?  I know that is my plan for my amd cards when eth raises the difficulty.

[starmax]

Maybe, RX 570/580s mine both well and XMR is definitely more profitable right now.

[philipma1957]

The fork will be interesting  it is due very soon under 3 weeks.

[yrk1957]

It is not like it is a crazy difficulty increase with 2.29% daily in the network of Monero. I think the FPGA-s may be just in but not at full power yet. I see this difficulty change in my home miner though with many 1060 cards which are not doing well, I was doing about 0.32 mBTC daily with 6 cards and now I am only doing just a bit more than 0.24 mBTC daily these last days. The difficulty increase is there but not as crazy as we think it is.

Look again, 30% over 30 days is actually crazy.

[starmax]

The fork will be interesting  it is due very soon under 3 weeks.

I haven’t heard much about v8, need to do some work to make sure my rigs are ready.

[starmax]

Look again, 30% over 30 days is actually crazy.

Exactly, it’s worse then the ZEC difficulty after the second batch of ASICs came out.

[FloppyPurpleGherkin]

The fork will be interesting  it is due very soon under 3 weeks.

Any more info on this?

[b9ron]

1x FPGA is 14 kh/s and with some optimization you could go up to 22 kh/s, for $3350. (Like the first CN ASIC in march)

[FloppyPurpleGherkin]

1x FPGA is 14 kh/s and with some optimization you could go up to 22 kh/s, for $3350. (Like the first CN ASIC in march)

For someone pumping out 110 kh/s on gpu's this makes for sad reading.


IF Monero wanted to be GPU only, How often would it have to fork/algo change to keep FPGA and/or ASIC's offline? Monthly? Quarterly?  

[philipma1957]

The new fork is said to lower fpga by more then 50 percent. Maybe 75 percent.

So 14kh May drop to 7kh or even 3.5 kh

While a gpu should drop 10 percent.

If a 500 dollar new vega does 1800 hashand drops to 1600 hash it is not bad

If a 3000 dollar FPGA drops from 14000 hash to 7000 hash or maybe 3500 hash then gpus will recover.

This is a big fork. If the hash rate does not drop a lot the xmr will lose out

[Marvell2]

The new fork is said to lower fpga by more then 50 percent. Maybe 75 percent.

So 14kh May drop to 7kh or even 3.5 kh

While a gpu should drop 10 percent.

If a 500 dollar new vega does 1800 hashand drops to 1600 hash it is not bad

If a 3000 dollar FPGA drops from 14000 hash to 7000 hash or maybe 3500 hash then gpus will recover.

This is a big fork. If the hash rate does not drop a lot the xmr will lose out

Nice info

CPU hash rate is dropping by alot too which is good, since allot of of web browers are hijaked to run cn7 right now

[DevelopmentBank]

XMR difficulty has gone up dramatically the last 3 weeks, are those FPGAs in play now?

https://www.coinwarz.com/difficulty-charts/monero-difficulty-chart

Seems like a really gradual increase and nothing like a sudden introduction of a new mining machine. If i was to speculate anything i'd say the gradual increase would be a result of the GPU miners who shifted from mining ETH to XMR.

If anything, we should see XMR difficulty go down once they fork away from ASICs.

[philipma1957]

https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/4404#issuecomment-423343196


this is github thread

some interesting info in it.

[MATHReX]

The new fork is said to lower fpga by more then 50 percent. Maybe 75 percent.

So 14kh May drop to 7kh or even 3.5 kh

While a gpu should drop 10 percent.

If a 500 dollar new vega does 1800 hashand drops to 1600 hash it is not bad

If a 3000 dollar FPGA drops from 14000 hash to 7000 hash or maybe 3500 hash then gpus will recover.

This is a big fork. If the hash rate does not drop a lot the xmr will lose out

So good to know that at least one of the coins - Monero is listening to their community, miners to support them and the GPU mining. All my rigs are pointed towards Monero for quite a while now and if anyone checks the price then you will see that Monero has been very stable whereas BTC, ETH and other cryptocurrencies had a really hard time, Most disappointing was ETH.

[Marvell2]

The new fork is said to lower fpga by more then 50 percent. Maybe 75 percent.

So 14kh May drop to 7kh or even 3.5 kh

While a gpu should drop 10 percent.

If a 500 dollar new vega does 1800 hashand drops to 1600 hash it is not bad

If a 3000 dollar FPGA drops from 14000 hash to 7000 hash or maybe 3500 hash then gpus will recover.

This is a big fork. If the hash rate does not drop a lot the xmr will lose out

So good to know that at least one of the coins - Monero is listening to their community, miners to support them and the GPU mining. All my rigs are pointed towards Monero for quite a while now and if anyone checks the price then you will see that Monero has been very stable whereas BTC, ETH and other cryptocurrencies had a really hard time, Most disappointing was ETH.

what pool do you mine too, Nano pool seems to pay consistently way less that calcuators say.  Like
20 to 30 percent less