Funny, even though eth e3 asics are done for, difficulty is not going down, actually is increasing faster than before. It's all time high at moment,
https://etherscan.io/chart/difficulty . It seems eth price will rise in the next few days.
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.
You guys thinks that asic miners controls the higher ETH Hashrates but the truth is there is more gpu miners out there, some build gigantic eth mining farms in asia parts of the world too, if I have to build a mining rig today it's will be GPU mining rig not asics, we all have our reasons, also remember that GPUs are so costly today because of miners