Quote from: analytics on January 14, 2014, 03:31:39 AM

Anyone have any explanation for the VERY notable hashing rate bump seen on the network around the 6th? (gmaxwell just posted this above)
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-lin-10k.png

Looking historically, there has never been a rise that dramatic, and it's notable. It almost certainly has to be ASIC based. Don't be fooled by the scale, that's a major processing power increase.

I'd look next for what pool that climb came from.

>>What's doubling interesting is the rate of growth after that date is also higher in general, as if machines are being added at a greater rate in general post that first dramatic spike/turn on.
>>Just sayin'.....looks an awful lot like a bunch of powerful asic machines were added at once, and more are being added day by day....just sayin'
>>Any other hardware manufacturers shipping then? It has to be asic based unless someone quite silly filled a few pods in a data center with non-asic computes that would cost buckets to run...eg doesnt' make sense, has to be asic.
>>It would be interesting to see if it's a single pool contributing that power and the rate increase.

Just a reminder that we saw 1-200Th/s uptick around the 6-9th of January in processing power, with overall rate day to day also going up. If I were someone who ordered in the later batches as well, this suggests to me they decided to just use the hardware for themselves (if this sudden uptick is from them). So later batches are likely to get the very same treatment. I think it's worth checking if this uptick is coming from a single pool and trying to peer into IP's in that pool if the owner allows it. If someone can point me in the right place to look, I'm happy to compare pools and see where this processing power uptick came from, as well as the increase in day to day growth.