we found a
blockreducing hashrate...
EDIT: turns out it was me who found the block and the next one, too.
difficulty back to
89BTC ~0.02 well invested, I would say ;-)
EDIT2: oh wow, and due to the lower difficulty the pool I mine in (hamsterpool) hops on the coin with 2GH/s (it didn't mine the coin before, I was the only one mining it)
Thank you!
Looks like difficulty is climbing again. Your troops may have to be redeployed.
You're welcome. It was fun, too. Now that I know it's that easy to rent mining power I can do it again anytime it becomes necessary (and so can anyone else with 10 mBits to spare)
It's really quite easy to do... the hardest part was finding a pool that was compatible with nicehash.com (the marketplace I selected to rent the miners). Most of them had "too low difficulty", some didn't allow mining specific coins directly. The fourth or sixth one I tried finally worked: hamsterpool.com.
I honestly didn't think it would work. I thought the coin had suffered one of these timewarp attacks and would be stuck for good. It was desperation and curiosity that drove me to try this.
You can imagine it made me quite happy when I finally found that block.