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Board Mining
Re: Huge ~40% Drop in Network Hashing Power (5/27/2011)
by
SgtSpike
on 28/05/2011, 08:48:34 UTC
I suspect a lot of the casual miners who came in with the last big round of press hits are getting out. Those who were CPU mining for a month or two and made less than they spent on electricity, or the NVIDIA miners who barely broke even, or even lost. At this difficulty such mining isn't really worth it.

And, summer hit with a vengeance here in the US on the day before the difficulty rose. I suspect some of the miners just can't stand the heat anymore. Smiley
Mmmm, good point about the heat.  I have a friend in CA who is jealous of my mining, and he has a card that would do 100MH/s at least, but he won't mine because he said his room is already too hot.

Those of us who are adults can just go out and buy something to cool the room with, but some younger miners might not have that option available, and would just shut down the miners instead.