j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM <div class="post"><div class="quoteheader"><a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=846.msg9942#msg9942">Quote from: Ground Loop on August 17, 2010, 07:25:38 PM</a></div><div class="quote">The recent upticks in difficulty have been remarkable. At 511.77, I've even stopped off those machines where I don't pay for marginal power consumption. My calculation is that the wear/tear from elevated temperatures and full-speed fans has more risk and cost than the BTC value. (You can question my math.)</div><br/>This is just what one should naturally expect. Some people have more tolerance for the cost of mining than others.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">But my question is this: Are we seeing the rise of mega-power machines, or just an exponential increase in the number of nodes? That is, are the top-producing machines making leaps in power (over average), or are my machines still about average, just dwarfed by the number of participating machines? Is there any way to tell? (node counts?)</div><br/>I'd guess both. There is Art with his GPUs who claims to have about %10 of the generating power.<br/><br/>Then I see about 850 connections to the IRC channel. Not sure what its been like historically.<br/></div> text/html
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