Quote from: jseppeli on October 24, 2014, 10:03:09 AM

Quote from: Flep182 on October 24, 2014, 07:53:02 AM

Quote from: jseppeli on October 24, 2014, 06:34:02 AM

Quote from: Neo110 on October 23, 2014, 10:41:43 PM

Can anybody tell me the usually increase of difficulty for btc? is it 20 percent every 2 weeks?

prediction for next diff change or the ones after that is impossible
here you have a simple site showing history and predictions according to calculations (variables as block times and network hash power changes constantly)
https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

So far the last two have been very low, could've been even a lowering of the difficulty, this round it's again slightly up.

Since the drop of BTC a lot of hardware has been switched off or replaced with other equipment.

There has not been a negative diff since Jan 23 2013
What comes to this round you can not predict it yet... still 12.6 days to go on this round and anything can happen during that time.

A lot of cloud operation got hit by the recent BTC fall. I've seen some complaints in other threads.
I'm curious whether the industry can survive with these prices or will slowly go bankrupt one by one.
If Bitcoin goes below $300 most of them will probably close down.