Wow. It's one of those days. Hashflare just upped their rates for SHA-256 mining. Until yesterday they had their price at $1.50 per 10GH/s. As of now, the price is $2.20 per 10GH/s. This will HUGELY affect the reinvest outcome. Yesterday I purchased 0.26TH/s for $39. Today, 0.16 for $35.20. I really don't know if the reinvest is going to be growable now and I'm not sure an initial investment will recoup itself over the year with difficulty rising.
The actually difficulty change this new epoch was a whopping 18.11%. It was good to see that my payout today was only a ten-thousandth of a bitcoin lower with the huge difficulty increase.
I'm keeping a running log of my Hashflare portfolio. This log is based purely on the 'reinvest' option that Hashflare provides. No extra money will be going in or out. If I have a friend sign up and receive a referral bonus, this bonus is not added to the hashing power. Right now I'm only investing in SHA-256 (Bitcoin hashing).
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Today I'm at reinvest day 7. Here are my stats so far:
As I said in my previous posts, I'm shooting for gaining TH/s power at a growth rate higher than the growth rate of the blockchain difficulty level. Yesterday the difficulty had a retarget, meaning that there is a brand new difficulty epoch running for the next couple of weeks. This will be the real test. To see if we can gain enough TH/s to beat the difficulty moving forward, with at least starting at the same time as the new epoch. I think the first session is not quite fair to the numbers given that I was late in the game on the previous retarget.
(Credit: https://diff.cryptothis.com/)
Thats all I have for now. Thanks for reading! If there is anything else folks would like to know about the progress, let me know!
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