Posts made by siriusb

@wrapper Yea, that makes sense :P However I believe that we can agree that during previous 2 months when ftc price went up high, it was within the most profitable coins, therefore many people mined it, which increased the difficulty. Correlation is a measure of similarity between things, average difficulty and price charts are similar enough for such a conclusion. Yesterday it was just weird that I mined 1/2 of coins I usually mine on daily basis, in spite of price drop, so it made me wonder who’d mine an unprofitable coin, hence increasing the difficulty. I guess these pools with autoswitching explain it, I just didn’t know it was that critical.

@wrapper
There’s no direct connection between the difficulty and price, but they’re obviously closely correlated. Big pools wouldn’t switch to ftc if it was deemed as unprofitable, whence my question :panda_face:

Does anyone have an idea what has caused today’s difficulty spike, despite a sudden price drop ( FTC / BTC )?

@thebaron
No, it’s a long story, basicallyan acc name from some friend who’s reading too much about some asdf galaxies and such…

It’s doable but isn’t really a good thing. I tried it on ryzen 7 1700, got only 50khs :P waste of power.

@AcidD
No, my projects were mostly related to singal processing. From open projects I worked on this:
https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore
It is not my project, it’s just full of minor bugs that I was fixing for some game server.
I am at some image processing summer school atm, after I’m done with it in ~10 days, I’ll see what i can do here.

Thanks everyone.

I’d like to know more about this. I am often programming in C++, but cryptos aren’t my field of expertise, except for optimizing mining algorithms perhaps, which I haven’t tried yet.
I could spend some time this summer working on ftc and cryptos in general.

After some time of stalking, I decided to join the forum.