Chris21010
ya know, now i wonder just how much larger their computational network has gotten sense august of last year...

Most certainly gotten larger, but I wonder how much is due to updated/ current GPU power compared to last year. Yourself and Todd alone (although Todd has added rigs) have a ton of power/ capabilities in GPUs. Folding seems to be the "easier" side of the currency from what I see. I have no clue how it all works as far as payout Folding vs mining in comparison to each other but more power to you guys for doing it.

howdy2u2

Chris21010
ya know, now i wonder just how much larger their computational network has gotten sense august of last year...

Most certainly gotten larger, but I wonder how much is due to updated/ current GPU power compared to last year. Yourself and Todd alone (although Todd has added rigs) have a ton of power/ capabilities in GPUs.

 
well as for hardware the 10XX series was launched in May 2016 and i would say by august stock was finally starting to become widely available. September 8th 2016 was the day that F@H made a name for itself in the crypto community when FLDC peaked at ~1,200% gain in a single day. it quickly came back down due to it simply being a pump and dump but a few found out just how profitable it was and stuck with it. it wasn't until January 2017 that BTC really started its climb to $3,000 USD over the next 5 months. in March 2017 the 1080 ti was released but that did not have a major effect on production. it wasn't until June 2017 that FLDC had rebounded to ~600% for the year that F@H production started kicking into high gear and FLDC peaked at ~1,600% later that month. production was growing very steadily for 6 weeks starting out around 280 Million PPD and it has finally started to plateau around 710 Million PPD, a 2.5x growth in just 6 weeks.
 
the large growth in production values can be contributed, at least in part, to the faster hardware but the growths in production more closely follows the whims of the market than it does with the launch dates of new hardware. so i would assume that its the market that is the primary driving factor to the substantial increase to F@H PPD sense August 2016. i just wonder to what extent.

I agree it's so easy to be profitable with 2 1080ti's over 2 1080's.  The 1080ti's have taken over the folding market for space as you can easily cram more of them into a case for sheer points.  If only they weren't so darn expensive, and not out of stock almost everywhere.  I really hope Vega causes the prices to come down a bit so they become somewhat affordable.  Or maybe someone will sell me a founder's edition haha :P.  Either way with the whales on team Curecoin it makes it extremely difficult for the small fries to make a profit as the whales are taking 90% of the coin and leaving the rest (like 500+ people) with the few coins to split. 

Ranmacanada
I agree it's so easy to be profitable with 2 1080ti's over 2 1080's.  The 1080ti's have taken over the folding market for space as you can easily cram more of them into a case for sheer points.  If only they weren't so darn expensive, and not out of stock almost everywhere. 

 I've never seen Newegg out of stock on 1080 ti cards - though I HAVE seen how MANY choices were in stock drop a some over the last 2-3 weeks.
 
 I believe the majority of the [link=mailto:F@H]F@H[/link] growth over the last 18 months was due to the release of the 10xx series cards, with Team Curecoin being the SECOND largest factor.