Checked the Gox graph lately? The last time BTC prices crashed this hard, Dwolla had just gotten snuffed out. Any idea what we're looking at this time? My guess is it has something to do with their policy change about account verification for fiat currency withdraws. Suppose it's going to jump back again? If so, it's a great time to swap your Gox dollars for BTC and sell them elsewhere if you don't just use them up instead. If it stabilizes at around $100, no big deal, still worth it for me. If it keeps dropping... Party's over! Everyone out of the pool. ASIC owners will enjoy their fancy bricks while GPU miners play games at max video settings.
It's really not much to worry about. If you'd have been watching the price for the last two years you would realize that this is the most stable it has been since it was around $5 / btc. The price of btc has been super volatile over the last 2-3 years...
Nothing to see here, move along...
And my bot love it(volatility)... It making me
BTC...
So I was under the impression that the difficulty just meant that blocks were found more slowly. But it appears that my hashrate has fallen about 20% across all of my miners. Is this to be expected? I'll check the miners when I get home, but I thought my MH/s would remain unaffected, I would just have a smaller payout.
I guess I'm still a little unclear how the difficulty affects the mining. Can someone enlighten me on what my expectations should be?
Hashrate follen? Reword or hashrate? If you didn't lost a card it shouldn't drop. Unless you are spiking about reword for block...
Both; And I have several machines mining, and they've all dropped off. Some 10%, some 25%. But across the board, every device has lost hashing power.
I know that Slush's report of my hashrate can be a little off, but it's been consistently down since yesterday AND the reward has fallen in tandem.