Basically do normal transfer 2547 USD, the type of transfer OUR=Your bank and Sweden bank fees going on you, i got from my sms,the amount is 1950 EUR was send (with fees) normaly it would be under 1900EUR calculated in bank from USD amount

Can you not email KnC, and request whether your order can be broken into multiple manageable chunks for your ccard? That would also validate your earlier question as to whether it is worth splitting your total order into three separate purchases. Your issuing bank may have a limit to which they will protect you, that's your research to undertake, but this would make sense to me, offer consumer protection and potentially save you wire transfer fees.

Two different prices were there from the very beginning. People had a choice.
The price for August delivery was clearly matched  (equal $ per GH/s) to BFL offer for end of August (BFL_Josh was predicting backlog fulfillment by the end of August then).
The price for October delivery was matched to current KnC offer.

LOL. Where are you coming from? PCB manufacturing?

A realistic statement would be "Fabrication time of one layer of 50 wafers is 25 hours". Do you know how many layers a 28nm design has?

You are confused, because you believe that all SEPA transfers should be free, which is not the case.
For example UK banks will charge you
And the banks in this member state I'm talking about will also charge you
It's basically the right of each bank to set the fees - maybe because the official currency is not euro?

Kano, thanks for the earlier reply, and I understand if you or ckolivas are not at liberty to disclose your email discussions with KNCminer.

At this point, it appears that you and ckolivas have more info. thank any of us on the board since you have the most recent communications

with KNCMiner.

Erk stated that I was out of line or pushy. I did mention "any chance" in my first request, so it did not come off pushy and this last time I

again thanked Kano and mention "IF he could let us in" so not pushy either.

OUT OF LINE?? Maybe, but prior I did ask Kano if there was a NDA for either him or ckolivas with KNC, but that was not answered. Had he

said YES, I would not have asked again.

 

I've been looking into potential ROI in relation to future Bitcoin difficulty and it looks like it would still make sense to run a Jupiter machine with 1 billion difficulty.

Which made me think - is there a way to calculate difficulty based on network hash rate?
If we can sum up a very rough estimate of the new ASIC machines being delivered and added to the network and the removal of most GPU miners (who pay electricity) then we can calculate again a very rough estimate of the future difficulty.
And again by rough I mean down to hundreds of TH/s.

Or in other words do you it is possible for difficulty to surpass 1 billion this year?

They are linearly, functionally, related.  That is, ignoring the transient network rate effects (which are what induce changes in difficulty in the first place) it is:

7158278 * D = Hash

EDIT:  This, BTW, is why difficulty in a trending network growth phase is, like any moving average, always the correct level for what was, not what is.  Hence, the normalized "3600 coins per day" is actually often substantially higher, and a source of "gaming" in players' network participation.

I don't think it's possible, no.

The problem with the exponential increases in the calculators' models is that while the diff has been rising exponentially it's doing so with mere linear inputs of money into mining equipment. And that exponential performance gains have come from bringing to bear modern computing technology on the problem, ie: ASICs.

Eventually we hit a wall where we've wrung the most efficiency out of existing tech and at that point, everyone's who already hit positive ROI on their equipment will be cemented in place with their existing market-share, because it won't make financial sense for others to jump into the game unless they can produce a far more efficient miner technically--and they won't be able to. We're looking at 1 or two more generations of mining products (barring some major tech advancement in the chip industry like carbon nanotube chips or something), and if the price of bitcoin doesn't rise dramatically again in the next years then that's the state of things, people mining late this year will probably still be mining late next year.

The bitcoin community doesn't have exponential money to put into miners. So those calculators are off with their projections by early next year, around June I'd say is where we hit the wall and there won't be anywhere else to go. That will be the new normal, probably around 500 - 750 million difficulty as an offhand guess.

Loredo, can you expand a little more on the second half of the quote here, where I believe you are referring to pool hopping. This might be of interest to those purchasing KnC equipment trying to maximize their ROI. Thanks.