Mining Difficulty
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Why would the difficulty decrease?
The difficulty was over 200 a few days ago, now it’s 163. I’m not complaining, I’m just trying to understand the dynamics.
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I noticed the same thing. I just figured that the hashing power on the network has decreased correspondingly.
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Correct. It goes in cycles.
Take a look at this chart: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/difficulty-ftc.html
In 6 months when ASICs are shipping, you’re going to be wishing it was even close to 200.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“53864” timestamp=“1390373154”]
Correct. It goes in cycles.Take a look at this chart: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/difficulty-ftc.html
In 6 months when ASICs are shipping, you’re going to be wishing it was even close to 200.
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Do you have any information on where we can buy some from? Also wasn’t there talk about scrypt currencies essentially disabling the ability to use ASICs? -
The recent attack drove the difficulty up, and with the site being down the hash rate dropped to about 3.5 GH/s and so did the difficulty drop along with it.
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[quote name=“Pryderi” post=“53922” timestamp=“1390389526”]
The recent attack drove the difficulty up, and with being off-are the hash rate dropped to about 3.5 GH/s and so did the difficulty drop along with it.
[/quote]Don’t you mean down? :o
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I have no idea how this off-are got there XD
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“53864” timestamp=“1390373154”]
Correct. It goes in cycles.Take a look at this chart: http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/difficulty-ftc.html
In 6 months when ASICs are shipping, you’re going to be wishing it was even close to 200.
[/quote]Ah yes, and the hash rate is pretty close to this trend - http://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/hashrate-ftc.html
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[quote name=“estrabd” post=“53851” timestamp=“1390368477”]
I noticed the same thing. I just figured that the hashing power on the network has decreased correspondingly.
[/quote]Just want to make sure this is clear for any that may not understand - hashrate on the network [i][b]is[/b][/i] the difficulty level. They are one in the same.
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[quote name=“Pryderi” post=“53922” timestamp=“1390389526”]
The recent attack drove the difficulty up, and with the site being down the hash rate dropped to about 3.5 GH/s and so did the difficulty drop along with it.
[/quote]After some research I think it wasnt an attack, all transactions processed as usual. I dont even think it was an asic test. At the point of the first mature grow in hashrate I didnt know that there are multipools out there like middlecoin.com which got 17gh/s scrypt hashing power. Seems like they just “leeched” Feathercoins to drop them onto the market. Luckily “DOGE” is way more profitable right now and all multipools are “leeching” DOGE right now. Thats good for us, lower diff, back to normal mining.
Just my opinion.
Regards,
ChekaZ -
[quote name=“ChekaZ” post=“53977” timestamp=“1390411245”]I dont even think it was an asic test. At the point of the first mature grow in hashrate I didnt know that there are multipools out there like middlecoin.com which got 17gh/s scrypt hashing power. Seems like they just “leeched” Feathercoins to drop them onto the market.[/quote]
Yes, this.
The multipools no doubt account for the drastic doubling/halving/whatever of the Feathercoin network hashrate. This was also bizarre to me at first until I understood how the multipools work.
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I think its due to the power outage in a few state due to the polar winter we are getting in the Eastern US. No power = no hashing. It was like last week also.
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[quote name=“ChekaZ” post=“53977” timestamp=“1390411245”]
[quote author=Pryderi link=topic=7081.msg53922#msg53922 date=1390389526]
The recent attack drove the difficulty up, and with the site being down the hash rate dropped to about 3.5 GH/s and so did the difficulty drop along with it.
[/quote]After some research I think it wasnt an attack, all transactions processed as usual. I dont even think it was an asic test. At the point of the first mature grow in hashrate I didnt know that there are multipools out there like middlecoin.com which got 17gh/s scrypt hashing power. Seems like they just “leeched” Feathercoins to drop them onto the market. Luckily “DOGE” is way more profitable right now and all multipools are “leeching” DOGE right now. Thats good for us, lower diff, back to normal mining.
Just my opinion.
Regards,
ChekaZ
[/quote]Ah well, maybe attacked is not the right word to use indeed - did not really see it as someone planning to do harm - it was just a doubling of the hash rate out of nowhere.
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[quote name=“StrangeAtoms” post=“53870” timestamp=“1390379852”]
Do you have any information on where we can buy some from? Also wasn’t there talk about scrypt currencies essentially disabling the ability to use ASICs?
[/quote]I would like to know this too… where to get some, and about the disabling ability to use ASICs
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[quote name=“digitaldaze” post=“54155” timestamp=“1390451544”]
[quote author=StrangeAtoms link=topic=7081.msg53870#msg53870 date=1390379852]
Do you have any information on where we can buy some from? Also wasn’t there talk about scrypt currencies essentially disabling the ability to use ASICs?
[/quote]I would like to know this too… where to get some, and about the disabling ability to use ASICs
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