It just means that bitcoin pools will get more popular as regular people using CPU miners won't see any short term reward (less than a week) and those that are willing to continue with mining bitcoins will look to the pools to at least get something out of their investment. You could always go down the triple graphic's card route if your dedicated to bit coin mining.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2011 17:55, The Doctor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drwho@virtadpt.net">drwho@virtadpt.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 04/06/2011 11:18 PM, George Shammas wrote:<br>
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> That being said, it seems to be getting much harder, as the last block I<br>
> generated was a month ago. This will either drive the value way up, or cause<br>
> it to collapse.<br>
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It does seem to be getting harder. The box I set up to test bitcoin<br>
hasn't generated any blocks in the past three months.<br>
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