As commonly happens Bitcoin mining difficulty increased yet again for another all time high. The difficulty went from 475705205061.62921143 to 499635929816.66754150 for a change of ~5.0305787 percent.
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Bitcoin Mining Difficult Goes Up ~3.24% In Newest Adjustment
Today Bitcoin mining difficulty increased ~3.24 percent from 460769358090.71423340 to 475705205061.62921143 for yet another all time high. The magnitude of increase is down slightly from the last two adjustments of ~4.535 and ~4.4 percent. US dollars continue trading under 1/1100th of a Bitcoin on fiat centered fiat/Bitcoin interfaces as fiat malaise continues.
Bitcoin Network Mining Difficulty Up Yet Again To 460769358090.71423340 For New All Time High
The Bitcoin network mining difficulty has risen to 460769358090.71423340 from 440779902286.58917236 in a change of ~4.535 percent. This is in line with last period's rise of ~4.4 percent. Meanwhile fiat/Bitcoin interfaces continue to steadily report record malaise on the fiat side. Reported prices continue to be near or below the 2013 MtGox record low for the US dollar.
Bitcoin Network Difficulty Climbs To 440779902286.58917236 – Yet Another All Time High
The Bitcoin network mining difficulty has climbed ~4.4 percent to 440779902286.58917236 from 422170566883.83685303 in a move that brings yet another all time high mining difficulty.
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Climbs ~7.43% In Latest Adjustment – Yet Another All Time High
The Bitcoin network mining difficulty has climbed to 422170566883.83685303 in an approximately 7.43% increase over the previous level. Two weeks ago, the last adjustment took the network mining difficulty up ~16.64% in move that represented a substantial purchases of computing equipment good at hashing double rounds of SHA256 and nothing else. As with most recent difficulty adjustments this is yet another all time high Bitcoin mining difficulty.
Death Cult Propagates Among Some Chinese Miners
As mentioned in Shinohai's latest shitcoin Roundup, a few single language Chinese miners have taken to expressing an unjustified degree of loyalty to yet another doomed anti-Bitcoin forking effort. In the same week the fork effort's defective client unintentionally fell out of consensus due to its inherent slop, Andrew Quentson (WOT:nonperson) published a purported "cosmetically corrected" interview with Jiang Zhuoer (WOT:nonperson) where among other things Zhuoer confesses to "SPV mining" while asserting to have 100 million dollars1 committed to destroying any actual Bitcoin network which remains after splitting his favored altcoin from Bitcoin.
If Zhuoer's intent actually corresponds to what the words printed in English mean,2 it represents a paltry counter to the deterrent presented by Mircea Popescu and other lords of the Most Serene Republic, which has thus far damped off earlier social engineering attempts to fork Bitcoin into something else before they could root.
Continued imprudence among mining pool operators suggests that a solution to the mining bug3 in order to disabuse certain activist factions of their imagined participation in Bitcoin. Importantly, recent efforts by the People's Bank of China to bring sanity to their local fiat/Bitcoin interfaces does not preclude future statal attempts to attack Bitcoin via the mining vector from the People's Republic of China. Sorry for your loss.
A mere 10,000 Bitcoins today, less tomorrow ↩
Such is the least of the curses handicapping the monophone single language speaker. ↩
Some solutions have been proposed to constrain the impact of the bug ↩
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Up Amazing 16.64% (As Usual Another All Time High)
Bitcoin mining difficulty has adjusted to 392,963,262,344.3704, constituting a shocking 16.64% leap above the previous level; for context, only two adjustments during the preceding fiat winter had a larger delta. While the network is close to completing its third exahash, more blocks at this level are needed for a confident estimate.
First Mining Difficulty Adjustment of 2017 Brings ~6.05% Rise For Another All Time High
The Bitcoin mining difficulty has started off the fiat year with its sixth consecutive rise, reaching a value of 336899932795.8077; this being ~6.05% above the previous value, and corresponding to a network hashrate of roughly 2.4 EH/s.
Bitcoin Network Difficulty Continues Climb Rising ~2.43 Percent For Yet Another All Time High
The Bitcoin network mining difficulty rose from 310153855703.43334961 to 317688400354.03375244 in a modest increase of approximately 2.43 percent. While less impressive than last period's ~8.16 percent jump this adjustment, being an increase, brings yet another all time high mining difficulty. This is accompanied by continued upwards noise on fiat/Bitcoin interfaces.
Bitcoin Network Difficulty Up ~8.16%, Yellen Announces Higher Interest Rate Target Hours Before Increase
The Bitcoin network mining difficulty increased from 286765766820.55041504 to 310153855703.43334961 for an approximately 8.1558 percent climb. In addition to itterating the first significant figure by one this increase is another all time high.
Meanwhile Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen announced that zhe and zher fellow Federal Reserve governors would be increasing the target range for the Federal Funds rate from 0.25-0.5 percent to 0.5-0.75 percent. This roughly doubles the cost of borrowing for the United States just in time for The Great Again.