That's a significant portion of mining power a single entity has.

And yet blockchain.info isn't showing a change in distribution. Maybe it takes longer to update? I wouldn't expect all new mining to come online perfectly across all pools. And if only one or two new entities I would expect either a big jump in unknown or just one pool.

FYI, 700 GH added in one day on EMC - confirmed by pool op.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/16385.msg1113700#msg1113700

BFL supposedly uses a dedicated account on EMC to perform testing.

Reviewing EMC's miner stats it would appear that multiple accounts are contributing to the 700 GH increase.


Still, this is strange.

According to the rest of the thread, it looks like that was just a whole bunch of users switching from OzCoin after the latter introduced a fee. Which means that it doesn't really explain why the total network hashrate would have increased.

And it's still rising - now at 25.1 TH/s according to Bitcoincharts.com. And 0.5 in last few minutes.
9.6 blocks in last hour. This is strange or is it just a temporary super luck wave?

a) random fluctuation (most probable)
b) someone developed ASICs three months before BFL and mining for themselves
c) someone is attempting 51% attack to destroy bitcoin

The "23 TH" surge is purely luck based, compounded by the fact that the network speed -IS- increasing due to the surge in price from $6.50 last month.  We are not at 23 TH/s right now, simply looking at the chart makes it painfully obvious it's not a natural network growth causing that number to display.

However, always remember that difficulty lags behind price.  The price/difficulty ratio takes a long time to balance because price can fluctuate much faster than new hashing power can be added during a rally, and people are hesitant to turn off the new hardware they've added unless it runs at an absolute loss during a crash.

The stupidity round here

Gpumax would not 'increase' network hashrate at all, it only distributes it