Quote from: Searing on March 27, 2015, 11:17:34 AM

Quote from: Minerjoe on March 27, 2015, 09:49:11 AM

I thought the era of high diff jumps s over,considering a huge mining base.

I guess I was wrong big time.

This adjustment seems to be over 10%. Where does that hash comes from? 10% s a really, really lot of money for a hardware to be fired up in a single week.

Comment?

Well KNC 'said' it has taped out their next generation of asic 16nm chips (private use by them and IPO only) for use in their data hall(s) ..MAY be coming up to speed now with equipment

that was Feb 3rd 2015 (hey it is a long shot ...but still ...)

http://www.kncminer.com/blog/newsarchive

KNC has stated they want to control 40% of all the bitcoin mined by sometime in 2016 or so....and of course will continue to mine directly converting BTC

to USD each day as they do so

so if the jump in difficulty is NOT due to them..well....you can pucker up on the prospect that in a few weeks (assuming they are on their time line big if)
another big hit will be forthcoming....

but on reflection looking at the above it looks maybe too soon for them ..(they are always late) so that means some other elephant is at the dance

what do they say ...when elephants decide they want to poka ...it may be time to clear off the dance floor?

I agree on this one, 100%. There must be something else worth of out attention.