New Diff thread Mar 22 to Apr. 5 not ready for prime time

[Mikestang]

Let's wait and see if that hashrate fires back up after the difficulty change.

I wish I had 20PH that I could just shut off at a whim when I felt the diff was getting too high.  

[coinits]

20PH/s disappeared on Antpool today.

Next batch of miners being removed from burn-in test and getting shipped?

Read in another thread (forget which) of a rumored fire at a bitcoin farm in Sichuan province at the time. There was no link to confirm and I could not find anything doing a search of English version of news from there.

EDIT: Mystery solved - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=855548.msg10958025#msg10958025

Spring Maintenance and Migration of miners to Bitmain Own facility from Umisoo.com facility

Only temporary!

[mavericklm]

maybe the farmers are starting to sabotage one another

Estimated Next Difficulty:    48,679,112,214 (+4.20%)
this is good!

from September when i started mining till now, diff had jumps ~+5%. i guess it was an ok time to start mining

[notlist3d]

maybe the farmers are starting to sabotage one another

Estimated Next Difficulty:    48,679,112,214 (+4.20%)
this is good!

from September when i started mining till now, diff had jumps ~+5%. i guess it was an ok time to start mining

The interesting thing is antpool now has the hash in 50 PH range once again.  What ever happened it is back to normal there.


*Turns out no conspiracy or anything bad.  Got this out of antpool thread.

P2pool is a tough one to make it work for the engineers.

Hashrate drop...  Spring Maintenance and Migration of miners to Bitmain Own facility from Umisoo.com facility.  Missing hash power will be back in a few days!!

Some customers received email from Umisoo.com regarding the spring cleaning and migration

[philipma1957]

yeah whatever really happened to Ant pool is fixed we are going back up.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qmF2knc5rSrJLESgQJYBz8mPzpKihmSzPPQUGH7pT8g/edit#gid=561061211

now (+6.13%)

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty


Estimated Next Difficulty:   49,071,015,219  (+5.04%)


https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/coinbase/btcusd

price = 250 usd

the 6.13% is most likely  very close to what we finish at.

there are 402 blocks to go.

[notlist3d]

Considering I was thinking we might hit 10 percent not as bad as change as i thought.   Also nice to see a little rise in BTC.  I just wish it would go up to 300's and beat that barrier.

[freedomno1]

now (+6.13%)

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

the 6.13% is most likely  very close to what we finish at.

Victory shall taste so sweet
But it is interesting with the blocks remaining that it may be spot on ^^

[mavericklm]

Considering I was thinking we might hit 10 percent not as bad as change as i thought.   Also nice to see a little rise in BTC.  I just wish it would go up to 300's and beat that barrier.

you want btc over 300? are you ready to have over 10% jumps?

i prefer btc down, lower than is now! this way diff will stay low. and as a miner and holder this is the perfect combination

i trust it will go over 1k(maybe 2k or more) in the future, i just want more btc for myself

[ezeminer]

Considering I was thinking we might hit 10 percent not as bad as change as i thought.   Also nice to see a little rise in BTC.  I just wish it would go up to 300's and beat that barrier.

you want btc over 300? are you ready to have over 10% jumps?

i prefer btc down, lower than is now! this way diff will stay low. and as a miner and holder this is the perfect combination

i trust it will go over 1k(maybe 2k or more) in the future, i just want more btc for myself

when the halving comes around a couple of things might happen. Like having btc jump so miners are still useful, btc difficulty drop so that it would be profitable to mine, or many other possibilities.

[EMIF]

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when the halving comes around a couple of things might happen. Like having btc jump so miners are still useful, btc difficulty drop so that it would be profitable to mine, or many other possibilities.

At first halving there was another expectation ASIC race. First halving happened then price didnt changed too much. After first ASICs came to market , then BTC market price gone crazy from $ 10 to $ 250 (was peak at btce).

But I agree with you. At the next halving there are lots of possibilities. And its really hard to wait enourmous hash increase due to mining saturation and technology limitations.

Btw, I guessed difficulty just too high. I didnt think mining operators made such tricky things.

[notlist3d]

Its not looking horrible. Bitwisdom:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    46,717,549,645
Estimated Next Difficulty:    49,171,956,055 (+5.25%)
Adjust time:    After 238 Blocks, About 1.6 days

And btc remaining over 250 hopefully a slow and nice climb.

[philipma1957]

Its not looking horrible. Bitwisdom:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    46,717,549,645
Estimated Next Difficulty:    49,171,956,055 (+5.25%)
Adjust time:    After 238 Blocks, About 1.6 days

And btc remaining over 250 hopefully a slow and nice climb.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qmF2knc5rSrJLESgQJYBz8mPzpKihmSzPPQUGH7pT8g/edit#gid=561061211


is at (+6.28%)  we are at 232 blocks to go so  + 5% to + 7 %   looks right.  If this is true   averaged in with the -1.5%   

the last two jumps average to 2.2%

[Chris_Sabian]

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty   (+5.83%)  691 blocks to go

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qmF2knc5rSrJLESgQJYBz8mPzpKihmSzPPQUGH7pT8g/edit#gid=561061211  (7.28%)

https://www.coinbase.com/charts  price = 245 usd for a btc


7 people seem to have a shot and 9 open slots in the same area  so we may have a carry over.

+5.01 to +5.25 Chris_Sabian
+5.26 to +5.50 RealMalatesta

   -----1 Open Slot ---------

+5.76 to +6.00 alh 
+6.01 to +6.25 freedomno1


----- 6 Open Slots -------


+7.76 to +8.00 armedmilitia

--- 2 open slots---------

+8.51 to +8.75 zebedee--------------------A switch from (+2.26 to +2.50)
+8.76 to +9.00 Last of the V8s

This one is going to be close.  I wonder who will win or if we will roll-over?

[Mikestang]

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when the halving comes around a couple of things might happen. Like having btc jump so miners are still useful, btc difficulty drop so that it would be profitable to mine, or many other possibilities.

At first halving there was another expectation ASIC race. First halving happened then price didnt changed too much. After first ASICs came to market , then BTC market price gone crazy from $ 10 to $ 250 (was peak at btce).

But I agree with you. At the next halving there are lots of possibilities. And its really hard to wait enourmous hash increase due to mining saturation and technology limitations.

Btw, I guessed difficulty just too high. I didnt think mining operators made such tricky things.

The next halving will be very interesting because there will not be an exponential growth in the mining gear technology like there was for the first halving.  Personally, I hope btc value stays about the same and the difficulty drops by 60%.

[philipma1957]

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty   (+5.83%)  126 blocks to go

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qmF2knc5rSrJLESgQJYBz8mPzpKihmSzPPQUGH7pT8g/edit#gid=561061211  (6.34%)

https://www.coinbase.com/charts  price = 253 usd for a btc


5 people seem to have a shot and 7 open slots in the same area  so we may have a carry over.

+5.01 to +5.25 Chris_Sabian
+5.26 to +5.50 RealMalatesta

   -----1 Open Slot ---------

+5.76 to +6.00 alh  
+6.01 to +6.25 freedomno1


----- 6 Open Slots -------


+7.76 to +8.00 armedmilitia



This one is going to be close.  I wonder who will win or if we will roll-over?

under 130 blocks left

[notlist3d]

Bitwisdom made it over 6:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    46,717,549,645
Estimated Next Difficulty:    49,570,713,533 (+6.11%)
Adjust time:    After 113 Blocks, About 18.3 hours

Also with 6.07 the spreadsheet is under bitwidsom currently

[philipma1957]

Bitwisdom made it over 6:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    46,717,549,645
Estimated Next Difficulty:    49,570,713,533 (+6.11%)
Adjust time:    After 113 Blocks, About 18.3 hours

Also with 6.07 the spreadsheet is under bitwidsom currently

looks like alh  or freedomno1

[notlist3d]

Bitwisdom made it over 6:

Bitcoin Difficulty:    46,717,549,645
Estimated Next Difficulty:    49,570,713,533 (+6.11%)
Adjust time:    After 113 Blocks, About 18.3 hours

Also with 6.07 the spreadsheet is under bitwidsom currently

looks like alh  or freedomno1

I would agree it's holding pretty solid in the 6's.   Looks like it will be low or mid 6's at the end.

Considering BTC is up just a tad and we didnt get the 10 I thought we were going to get not to bad of difficulty change.

[philipma1957]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qmF2knc5rSrJLESgQJYBz8mPzpKihmSzPPQUGH7pT8g/edit#gid=561061211

(6.15%)


https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

(+6.34%)

Adjust time:   After 59 Blocks, About 9.5 hours



still looks like alh or freedomNo1


May be midnight  eastern standard time for results.

[philipma1957]

very close