Quote from: twentyseventy on October 31, 2014, 07:36:05 PM

Quote from: eltopo on October 31, 2014, 10:07:32 AM

Thanks for constantly updating this.

As the hashrate is heading towards 300 PH/s, can you please explain the difficulty change that is needed for a SELL dividend?

Sure thing. I'm actually traveling this weekend so updates will come today and Sunday or will do all catch up on Sunday night.

The replacement value of any period is about a 6.5% difficulty increase. Obviously the last few periods have been running a deficit; will run the numbers on Sunday or Monday to let you know exactly what kind of increase is needed this time around for a SELL div.

Okay, my handy dandy excel sheet is telling me that the difficulty needs to increase about 18 - 19% this period for a SELL dividend to be paid. We started this period at about 180 days worth of dividends, so that's a lot of BTC to make up in one period. Today's spike is pretty interesting, though - wonder if it will last!