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Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

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Re: Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

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It's predicted to happen mid-2016, 70% of all coins to ever be mined have been so. This has been a really interesting tech to watch over the years.

What happens when we reach 100%?

We re-learn why a deflationary currency is an awful idea.

Re: Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

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It's predicted to happen mid-2016, 70% of all coins to ever be mined have been so. This has been a really interesting tech to watch over the years.

What happens when we reach 100%?

No more bitcoins, miners get funded by fees instead of the newly-minted coins.

Re: Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's predicted to happen mid-2016, 70% of all coins to ever be mined have been so. This has been a really interesting tech to watch over the years.

What happens when we reach 100%?

Then blocks continue to be created, but no more coins are mined (in practice, we will be mining tiny little fractions of a coin for a very long time until it drops off to true zero).

Re: Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

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Slightly-more-available link https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty

Hash rate has increased by 41.9% over the same period, so the difficulty has kept the time-to-generate relatively fixed - just the way it's supposed to work.

The real news is that someone or someone(s) have added ~200PH/s worth of processing power to the network in the past 30 days. This is probably from some high-power ASIC miner being released, or from some consolidated mining concern going live.

Re: Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days

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What happens when we reach 100%?

We re-learn why a deflationary currency is an awful idea.

It's not so bad an idea as long as you get to choose which currencies you use.
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