Quote from: pj40 on June 01, 2016, 02:33:12 PM

Quote from: Real-Duke on June 01, 2016, 02:10:23 PM

Quote from: Tupsu on June 01, 2016, 01:31:00 PM

Why should diff rise after the halving ?
I think that many of the miners turned off, if the BTC price stays the same or decreases.

Same thoughts here! Many old running S3 + S5 are going to be shut-down after the halving and the diff will stay or decrease a little for some time. Hopefully the bitcoin price keeps on rising instead!

However, as people begin replacing S7's with S9's, those S7's will be sold to people turning off S3/S5...

That I have found to be a good thing for miners. It allows me with my regular electricity to sell my previous gen gear, and hopefully add some extra ROI. Then upgrade to the latest miner.

But I think it is great how there is a market for used gear. Also on a lot of sites it seems Bitmain/Antminer get a lot of searches on secondary sales which again is good for selling your old gear.