Yes quite disappointing eh? I was hoping the difficult would get reduced by like 25% or so, so my 8GB would be more profitable however. The E3 and 4GB GPUs going offline has done absolutely nothing .
I guess globally there must really be millions of GPUs out there mining or some high tech ETH ASICS that the E3 shutdown doesn’t make a blip in the hash rate charts.
Might still go down when epoch 382 hit in 2 days. However I doubt it will even cause hashrate to decrease by 5%. I guess bitmain had a supply constraint of the DDR2 ram chips and couldn’t mass produce the E3 miners.
It's like I always say, bitmain and co aka mining mafia of china knows when the difficulty goes down then they go and turn on few more eth asics in their factories. It has always been like this. They do that to shadow the difficulty which makes people think 4gb gpus or asics were inexistent on the network.