Earlier today the DIFF on the /pool status page was over 103 its now back at 95.8? Did something happen?
Bitcoin difficulty rose.
Dammmmm.. 21.39% The Diff has been rising at a crazy rate since 4th June.
Look at the jumps before jumps in the prior 5 months to this in the 2nd table.
From July to Now
Oct 26 2017 1,452,839,779,146
21.39% 10,399,832,230 GH/s
Oct 15 2017 1,196,792,694,099
6.49% 8,566,975,802 GH/s
Oct 02 2017 1,123,863,285,133
1.85% 8,044,926,758 GH/s
Sep 18 2017 1,103,400,932,964
19.58% 7,898,451,536 GH/s
Sep 06 2017 922,724,699,726
3.89% 6,605,120,681 GH/s
Aug 24 2017 888,171,856,257
-3.80% 6,357,781,793 GH/s
Aug 09 2017 923,233,068,449
7.32% 6,608,759,726 GH/s
Jul 27 2017 860,221,984,436
6.92% 6,157,708,817 GH/s
Jul 14 2017 804,525,194,568
13.53% 5,759,015,666 GH/s
Jul 02 2017 708,659,466,230
-0.43% 5,072,782,052 GH/s
Jun 17 2017 711,697,198,174
4.85% 5,094,526,985 GH/s
Jun 04 2017 678,760,110,083
13.90% 4,858,754,124 GH/s
We only see one time where we have double-figure jump in this period was back in January at 16.54% now look at the jumps above if the difficulty is adjusting up for the additional hash rate why is it now jumping at higher s% than previous even though the hash rate change is still equivalent and yet we are seeing hash rate jump on and off bitcoin on almost a switch.
Previous data
May 23 2017 595,921,917,085
6.42% 4,265,775,241 GH/s
May 10 2017 559,970,892,891
7.28% 4,008,427,786 GH/s
Apr 27 2017 521,974,519,554
0.22% 3,736,439,151 GH/s
Apr 13 2017 520,808,749,422
4.24% 3,728,094,244 GH/s
Mar 30 2017 499,635,929,817
5.03% 3,576,533,297 GH/s
Mar 17 2017 475,705,205,062
3.24% 3,405,230,497 GH/s
Mar 03 2017 460,769,358,091
4.54% 3,298,315,540 GH/s
Feb 18 2017 440,779,902,287
4.41% 3,155,225,442 GH/s
Feb 04 2017 422,170,566,884
7.43% 3,022,014,630 GH/s
Jan 22 2017 392,963,262,344
16.64% 2,812,940,600 GH/s
Jan 10 2017 336,899,932,796
6.05% 2,411,623,656 GH/s
Could the Diff be manipulated in some way to make it spike like this if you look at some charts of the Diff we are moving up at such a rate now it's incredible to look at.