2024 Diff thread happy New Years.

[Nexus9090]

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The total hashrate for Fractal as of right now is about 220EH, that's like 30% of the entire SHA256 hash power that we know exists, that much can't be coming from home miners, and quite honestly anyone who mines Fractal Bitcoin on permissionless mode is just a gambler, they are hopping for the price to spike, otherwise, just Megrge mine it and still make the same BTC + whatever you get from Fractal, it's 2:1 ratio so it isn't all that bad.

As for home miners, they are done for the most part regardless of which coin they mine, the game has changed, and the ship has sailed but some people don't want to see the truth.

Merged mining doesn't do that good I'm afraid. I wasnt seeing a good ratio on F2pool, I dont recall the exact value but it was nothing like 2:1 it was a busted flush to be honest.

I think you're probably correct the home mining ship has sailed, the only chance home miners have now is solo/lottery mining.

Even with 100's TH/s available to home mining, you would only benefit if you had completely free electricty.

[philipma1957]

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The total hashrate for Fractal as of right now is about 220EH, that's like 30% of the entire SHA256 hash power that we know exists, that much can't be coming from home miners, and quite honestly anyone who mines Fractal Bitcoin on permissionless mode is just a gambler, they are hopping for the price to spike, otherwise, just Megrge mine it and still make the same BTC + whatever you get from Fractal, it's 2:1 ratio so it isn't all that bad.

As for home miners, they are done for the most part regardless of which coin they mine, the game has changed, and the ship has sailed but some people don't want to see the truth.

Merged mining doesn't do that good I'm afraid. I wasnt seeing a good ratio on F2pool, I dont recall the exact value but it was nothing like 2:1 it was a busted flush to be honest.

I think you're probably correct the home mining ship has sailed, the only chance home miners have now is solo/lottery mining.

Even with 100's TH/s available to home mining, you would only benefit if you had completely free electricty.

solo mining is meh.

and large home mining is done.

but there are spots for a guy with a decent unit or 2 that needs winter heat.

also a few people have very limited cheap power.

say 3 -7kwatts but yeah mining is now industrial level

[mikeywith]

Merged mining doesn't do that good I'm afraid. I wasnt seeing a good ratio on F2pool, I dont recall the exact value but it was nothing like 2:1 it was a busted flush to be honest.

it is indeed 2:1 ratio, this is how fractal Bitcoin works, the procotol accepts 2 blocks on fractal own chain and then 1 block on BTC blockchain (merged), then back to 2 blocks on fractal.

so if people mine 99 blocks, 33 of them will be merged mined, this is what I understand from reading their documentations, correct me if I am missing something.

[Nexus9090]

Merged mining doesn't do that good I'm afraid. I wasnt seeing a good ratio on F2pool, I dont recall the exact value but it was nothing like 2:1 it was a busted flush to be honest.

it is indeed 2:1 ratio, this is how fractal Bitcoin works, the procotol accepts 2 blocks on fractal own chain and then 1 block on BTC blockchain (merged), then back to 2 blocks on fractal.

so if people mine 99 blocks, 33 of them will be merged mined, this is what I understand from reading their documentations, correct me if I am missing something.

I'll have to go and take a look at the stats page when I get a minute, but I seem to recall it was 77:1 or something like that, but it wasnt clear what that actually meant.

[philipma1957]

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator
Latest Block:   862673  (9 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   95.1194%  (1842 / 1936.51 expected, 94.51 behind)

Previous Difficulty:   89471664776970.77                            
Current Difficulty:   92671576265161.06                            
Next Difficulty:   between 88285762305293 and 88316898454908
Next Difficulty Change:   between -4.7326% and -4.6990%
Previous Retarget:   September 10, 2024 at 10:55 PM  (+3.5765%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Tomorrow at 4:02 PM  (in 1d 6h 21m 34s)
Next Retarget (latest):   Tomorrow at 4:10 PM  (in 1d 6h 29m 16s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 17h 6m 43s and 14d 17h 14m 25s

looks like a strong adjust for miners.

-3% to -5%

and price shifted up.

we were as low as 3.8 cents a th

by tomorrow we may be close to 5 cents a th

that is 31% up in profits

it will help a 10 cent miner with really good gear.

a t21 set to 160 th will earn 8 bucks and burn 6 bucks at 10 cents a kwatt

that would mean a small profit of 2 bucks a day vs 8 cent daily profit at 3.8 cents a th


so the cut off is a 16 watt per th miner (t21 set to 160 th does 16 watts a th)

at 10 cents

vs a 13 watt miner which is the s21xp at 10 cents  that would do 10.26 earn and 9.60 burn profit of 60 cents with that 3.8 cent per th.

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator

Latest Block:   862746  (13 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   95.0943%  (1915 / 2013.79 expected, 98.79 behind)

Previous Difficulty:   89471664776970.77                            
Current Difficulty:   92671576265161.06                            
Next Difficulty:   between 88257249225163 and 88267802371517
Next Difficulty Change:   between -4.7634% and -4.7520%
Previous Retarget:   September 10, 2024 at 10:55 PM  (+3.5765%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Tomorrow at 4:13 PM  (in 0d 17h 39m 29s)
Next Retarget (latest):   Tomorrow at 4:15 PM  (in 0d 17h 42m 6s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 17h 17m 23s and 14d 17h 20m 0s

from newhedge


Latest Block:   862786  (24 minutes ago)

Current Pace:   95.2783%  (1955 / 2051.88 expected, 96.88 behind)

Previous Difficulty:   89471664776970.77                           
Current Difficulty:   92671576265161.06                           
Next Difficulty:   between 88425522151965 and 88429231635438
Next Difficulty Change:   between -4.5818% and -4.5778%
Previous Retarget:   September 10, 2024 at 10:55 PM  (+3.5765%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   Today at 3:34 PM  (in 0d 10h 39m 18s)
Next Retarget (latest):   Today at 3:34 PM  (in 0d 10h 40m 13s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 16h 38m 9s and 14d 16h 39m 4s


61 blocks to go around 10 hours more. and a very good miner adjustment will be here

[TheYankeesWin!]

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator


Latest Block:   862840  (11 minutes ago)
Current Pace:   95.4079%  (2009 / 2105.70 expected, 96.7 behind)
Previous Difficulty:   89471664776970.77                           
Current Difficulty:   92671576265161.06

Dropping under 89 difficulty.

[philipma1957]

https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/difficulty-estimator


Latest Block:   863110  (14 minutes ago)


Current Pace:   92.2507%  (263 / 285.09 expected, 22.09 behind)


Previous Difficulty:   92671576265161.06                           
Current Difficulty:   88404402370999.9                             
Next Difficulty:   between 81591881980345 and 86640069653228
Next Difficulty Change:   between -7.7061% and -1.9958%
Previous Retarget:   last Wednesday at 3:39 PM  (-4.6046%)
Next Retarget (earliest):   October 9, 2024 at 10:32 PM  (in 12d 7h 22m 6s)
Next Retarget (latest):   October 10, 2024 at 7:52 PM  (in 13d 4h 42m 33s)
Projected Epoch Length:   between 14d 6h 53m 1s and 15d 4h 13m 28s

It is early and we are down. Some may be from the hurricane. 4 million are out of power and we have a few mines in the Carolina states and I think Alabama has a host.

But these are all small and may represent 1% tops.

[stompix]

It is early and we are down. Some may be from the hurricane. 4 million are out of power and we have a few mines in the Carolina states and I think Alabama has a host.
But these are all small and may represent 1% tops.

For a while, it looked like it could be more but right now it's as flat as it could be

Latest Block:   863978  (14 minutes ago)
Current Pace:   99.9748%  (1131 / 1131.29 expected, 0.29 behind)

I don't really recall when it was the last time we were off by less than a block after the one-thousand mark, but I'm sure it will go up again, that last adjustment of -4.6 % really came out of nowhere, and fractal mining rewards are getting slimmer and slimmer, it was over $30 a week ago and now sitting at $8 after crashing to $6. I would be more concerned about the bearish sentiment and a possible energy crisis than what those guys could pull off the network.