Quote from: OleOle on November 26, 2013, 03:14:13 PM

Quote from: uray on November 26, 2013, 01:39:35 PM

simple question, if diff increase, how the price of ghs will be? drop or raise?

With difficulty increases, you get less return from your mining so in theory, based on the fundamentals, the price should drop. However, what tends to happen is that miners perceive that they need more hashing power to counteract the difficulty increase, so their demand drives the price higher. There's usually some volatility in price as fundamentalists sell and optimists buy, so if you're careful it is sometimes possible to sell high and buy low if you get your timing right. Conversely, some people have got that wrong, misjudged the situation, sold low thinking it would drop and were forced to buy back in higher when miner demand outstripped the selling pressure.

You normally hear people moaning on threads like this when they get it wrong. You need to make the decision why you're using a product like CEX, is it to mine, to trade or both. Being clear about that will help optimize your strategy.

I was thinking along the same exact lines. And I agree, But I believe there is one additional variable to consider, and that is whether or not they are adding hardware. If they never added any hardware then the value should go up as the demand for the limited GH goes up. But every time they expand and increase the GH available, shares go down. That's my concern, as I find it very hard to believe they will never expand, especially as difficulty increases, the GH they offer becomes more useless.

And passive income will similarly diminish, for more obvious reasons. Difficulty up, ROI down. After lots of thought, it's For these reason I'm staying
away, though it was very very interesting.

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