To me it seems that a reduction of -2% more normal, than 5 or 6, after such a big rise in the previous cycle.
I believe I did make this claim a while ago that anything above 3% increase in any epoch is not realistic, assuming the current hashrate is 560 then every 1% is going to take 5.6EH, but even a while ago when 1% was 5exahash we are talking about 5,000,000TH, if you assume it's all brand new latest gen 200th~ gears, then that's 25,000 gears, so 3 times that would give you 75,000.
Convert that to money and you get 75,000*$ 5000 = $375,000,000 (not counting tax, transport and all the other stuff)
Convert that to electricity and you get 75,000*MW0.0035 = 262MW
jump to 4% and you get 500M dollars and 350MW which is 100k gears.
I can't be convinced that there is any solid possibility that suggests the world is able to sustain such an increase in two weeks, 100k top-of-the-line mining gears is just not possible, there will always be a bottleneck somewhere, be it in the manufacturing of these gears, transporting them, the cost, the power, the time, the delivery, the paperwork, it just doesn't matter, I just don't think it's doable.
Now going back to the 8% 'fluke', we could to some degree assume that 3% was real, and 5% was variance, this means if we have a real 3% increase this epoch as well and 0% variance we should drop by 2%.
This epoch won't be variance free, we may have a 1% variance and end with -1% or -3%, but if we assume not much variance then anything around -2% is very realistic and suggests a massive increase of hashrate by nearly half a billion dollar worth.
could be correct. but I do like that we are around -3%
https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimatorLatest Block: 832333 (9 minutes ago)
Current Pace: 96.7386% (1742 / 1800.73 expected, 58.73 behind)Previous Difficulty: 75502165623893.72
Current Difficulty: 81725299822043.22
Next Difficulty: between 79213133358733 and 79258137846773
Next Difficulty Change: between -3.0739% and -3.0188%
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I still like to think it is under and overclocking since the is in hand and making an s19xp up and down 15% is easy peasy.
next jump will smoke after this one + 5-9% with a simple over clocking of a really large set of farms.
and even with a 62.5K price - 2.85%
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Latest Block: 832466 (11 minutes ago)
Current Pace: 97.1442% (1875 / 1930.12 expected, 55.12 behind)Previous Difficulty: 75502165623893.72
Current Difficulty: 81725299822043.22
Next Difficulty: between 79534957362376 and 79545386002067
Next Difficulty Change: between -2.6801% and -2.6674%
Previous Retarget: February 15, 2024 at 9:07 AM (+8.2423%)
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Projected Epoch Length: between 14d 9h 49m 44s and 14d 9h 52m 38s
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Latest Block: 832571 (15 minutes ago)
Current Pace: 96.9013% (1980 / 2043.32 expected, 63.32 behind)Previous Difficulty: 75502165623893.72
Current Difficulty: 81725299822043.22
Next Difficulty: between 79328143356016 and 79328885341071
Next Difficulty Change: between -2.9332% and -2.9323%
Previous Retarget: February 15, 2024 at 9:07 AM (+8.2423%)
Next Retarget (earliest): Today at 7:51 PM (in 0d 6h 11m 18s)
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Projected Epoch Length: between 14d 10h 44m 27s and 14d 10h 44m 39s