Quote from: PeeJWeeJ on June 08, 2013, 11:20:28 PM

My expected timeline:

ASICs start entering in droves, hashrate and difficulty shoot up.
Remnant GPU miners switch to SCRYPT based coins (litecoin, worldcoin etc.)
BTC hashrate/difficulty drops a bit, and then goes back to it's current trend.

How soon it will happen all depends on how many/how soon the ASIC producers will actually ship any decent amount of the machines. Given that most of them were supposed to be out by now and very few have actually been seen (yet) in the wild, I would be careful about making any prediction about how they will affect the market.

Thanks for answer. Yes I realize that it is hard to predict.

My belief is that people will leave gpu mining in a rather even pace, so that the actual switch to almost 100% asics will not even be seen on the difficulty.