I had someone that is working bulk orders with KNC tell me that Sam Cole himself told him that the hashrate will flatten until they are shipping Neptunes as no one will be introducing significant hashrate into the network.. What is worse is this person didn't understand that the network hashrate isn't a secret as the difficulty is tied to it..
It's on track for another 20% at the next turn and has been doing 20%+ for a while, not sure how KNC can say anything like that as it's showing no signs of slowing down.
I've been waiting 4 months for this promised "levelling off" to occur.
Dude the hashrate is about to level out for a bit not, continue growing like this for a while.
Difficulty in Oct: 250M
Difficulty in Feb: 2600M
10x increase! Anybody claiming the difficulty is going to level off in the next few months is an idiot.