Quote from: Steamtyme on December 01, 2018, 06:39:10 PM

Quote from: NomadGroup on December 01, 2018, 05:42:58 PM

Lets just hope for the best! That the BTC will go up and the difficulty go down! Wink

Unfortunately that window only lasts about 2016 Blocks. As soon as the price rises the Diff will follow. If it's slow enough it'll buy us some more time with a lower Diff maybe 2 or 3 retarget periods, but last year is a good example of how fast Diff can rise if the price increases quickly. Only this time there won't be a bottleneck on hardware, there is an ample supply just waiting to be purchased or turned back on.

In the meantime I'll happily sit here partially heating the house with some 741's, collecting some lower Diff coins for a better tomorrow.

Would have been nice to snag one last block before we lost a bunch of Hashpower but I'm looking forward to their 5ND running out.

I think it will take a while for difficulty to rise unless the price rises very dramatically - which I don't expect it to at this point. Large professional miners have been struggling for a while and many have been hanging on hoping for a turnaround because of the already sunk costs - (server space rented, power contracts, etc.). Once someone closes an operation like that because they ran out of money, they do not run out and start it up again immediately because it now would be mildly profitable again.