As for current diff numbers here goes:
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty (+1.58%)Bitcoin Difficulty: 47,427,554,951
Estimated Next Difficulty: 48,176,028,050 (+1.58%)
Adjust time: After 1908 Blocks, About 13.2 days
Hashrate(?): 340,487,161 GH/s
Block Generation Time(?):
1 block: 9.9 minutes
3 blocks: 29.8 minutes
6 blocks: 59.5 minutes
Updated: 8:50 (2.4 minutes ago)
http://btc.blockr.io/chartsmarch 8
155 blocks vs 144 normal but most of them were made on the last adjustment
http://bitcoincharts.com/ (+0.49%)Blocks 346860
Total BTC 13.922M
Difficulty 47427554951
Estimated 47662803147 in 1908 blks
Network total 339076.716 Thash/s
Blocks/hour 5.99 / 601 s
As to what happens short term only avalon 4.1 is selling decent gear,
but it is a bit costly due to the premium it puts on quiet running.
Sp-tech has some sp31's left to sell at 2075 plus shipping.
and MegaBigPower is still buying used gear.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=976450.0No one Knows when KNC or Bitfury will deploy there new super gear.
No one knows if some superplayer will build completely off the grid.
AsicMiner's Fried Cat is still missing.----Not sure about this.
Lastly price is 279 usd.
what does all that info point to? Well it is a spec thread lets spec.
I still push the idea that both KNC and BitFury do not need to expand very much. If their gear is really good simple replacement of current hashpower with better more efficient gear
and very little expansion works for them.
It also ends the endless upward spiral of network hash power wells slows it.
My continued mining depends on this idea.
I know the economics of that works. I don't know if the bigger players will go along with it.
Last adjustment is a perfect example of what I want to happen
Very slow diff jump under 2%
A good price jump over 10%
Frankly I think the builders are trying to manipulate the hash power supply to make this continue to happen.
I like this idea. I really hope for these patterns to carry on.