Quote from: edonkey on June 09, 2014, 11:18:09 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on June 09, 2014, 04:43:16 PM

Charts have been updated for today. No major changes.

A quick note about LTC profitability:

LTC difficulty was 6815 a month ago, now it's 10763 (58% increase). Together with LTC/BTC rate going down this has reduced LTC profitability roughly by half in the last month. Just wanted to spoil the day for ASIC owners

Yeah, it's not a great time for us ASIC guys. I've been trying to keep a happy attitude, hoping that if enough GPU people move over to X11, maybe LTC difficulty will slow, or go down.

Of course that direction might be thwarted by the new monster ASICs that haven't been delivered yet. The potential of scores of Titans (and their ilk) slamming the network probably dwarfs the effect of GPU defectors.

I've been somewhat successfully rolling over my ASICs to the newer models keeping the same price and increasing hashrate. Gridseed mini -> Gridseed Blade -> Zeus clones (although these should come bundled with nuclear reactors) -> Innosilicon, but it's just postponing the inevitable. If difficulty keeps rising like this I will eventually lose money. And if Titan doesn't scare you here is another preview of what's coming: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=645610 (these Chinese vendors have a history of actually delivering unlike e.g. Flower et al). The only hope is that between now and when the REALLY BIG ASICs arrive maybe there's going to be some slowdown.