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S5 prices are nicely adjusting the cruel reality however S7 hashes keep being brutally overpriced. There will be huge drop in price probably only after people realize that at this speed of difficulty growth the S7 will NOT survive halving.

Well, it is said that modern man suffers from lack of understanding of exponential functions. Doubling time, compounded interest etc.

Difficulty History

Date   Difficulty   Change   Hash Rate
Jan 26 2016   120,033,340,651 5.89%   859,232,121 GH/s
Jan 13 2016   113,354,299,801 9.12%   811,421,684 GH/s
Dec 31 2015   103,880,340,815 11.16%   743,604,444 GH/s
Dec 18 2015   93,448,670,796   18.14%   668,931,642 GH/s
Dec 06 2015   79,102,380,900   8.77%   566,236,898 GH/s
Nov 24 2015   72,722,780,643   10.44%   520,569,941 GH/s
Nov 11 2015   65,848,255,180   5.77%   471,360,171 GH/s
Oct 29 2015   62,253,982,450   2.25%   445,631,364 GH/s
Oct 15 2015   60,883,825,480   0.12%   435,823,399 GH/s
Oct 01 2015   60,813,224,039   2.49%   435,318,014 GH/s
Sep 17 2015   59,335,351,234   4.17%   424,738,988 GH/s
Sep 04 2015   56,957,648,455   4.98%   407,718,729 GH/s
Aug 22 2015   54,256,630,328   2.95%   388,384,088 GH/s

Yeah it's strange for me.
1 Month ago S5 had around 40% of the cost. Now it's close to 80&

Well, it s obvious after halving nothing will survive besides S7 and even that one will be at close to 90%. So, we need new miners, much more efficient or we need the price to go up big time.

If the 16 nm miner does not come out before halving, then S7 will last long time. 16 nm will kill most miners before it.

Well it all depends on the difficulty and what will happen with the price of bitcoin.
Right now it's really insecure what is going to happen.