# Mining Speculation/Strategy

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/mining-speculation-strategy/22126>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 10:13am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/mining-speculation-strategy/22126 "2017-10-05T10:13:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![garcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@garcher](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/garcher)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/mining-speculation-strategy/22126/174 "2018-03-26T19:56:03Z")

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> [@Price Speculation](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/price-speculation/16488/3808):
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> If I was Bitmain or some other big mining farms, I would push the price down as low as possible and ramp up the network hashrate as much as possible. It would cause the most pain on small gpu miners. Pushing them to stop mining and start selling gpus.

That is most likely as to what is going on with Flypool right now. The price is dropping while the difficulty is going up. Personally I am still waiting for the smaller miners to start dumping cards onto Ebay.

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