A 1% increase every 18 days, you guys are kidding, right?
2 weeks ago it increased by 16.8%,
2 weeks before that it increased by 15.3%,
2 weeks before that it increased by 3.0%,
2 weeks before that it increased by 17.7%
2 weeks before that it increased by 18.1%
In the last year alone, difficulty has increased by 490% (last Feb it was 0.441T, now its 2.6T), and it is now increasing at a rate much faster than that.
So I dont know how you guys justify the numbers above.
And whats this about difficulty will level out? Why would you think that?
You are aware that in the almost 10 years of bitcoin history, THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED!
In fact, apart from the odd blip here and there, difficulty has ALWAYS increased and the rate at which it has been growing has ALWAYS been increasing as well.
Just look at the data:
https://data.bitcoinity.org/bitcoin/difficulty/5y?t=lSaying it will magically start to flatten out is true wishful thinking in my opinion.
Anyway, keep buying those S9s every time Bitmain releases a batch
Learn to read, 5% preset difficulty every 14 days, thats an avg of 11% monthly, the avg was 7% in 2017. Last year there was some big jumps in difficulty too...
And like i told you some posts before i dont know what hashrate chart u are looking at. The one im looking at we are back at hashrate lvls of 15 days ago and it keeps going down.
Also nobody expects difficulty to simply go flat but to go up in lower numbers than it is raising after the whole craze in december
PD: I dont think anybody is discussing with you that selling a s9 for 5k is much better than mining i sold my order of 6 for 4.5k each