# Significant Increase In Difficulty? **URL:** \ **Category:** Mining\ **Created:** [September 2, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095 "2017-09-02T15:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![x697](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/x697/32/6338_2.png) [@x697](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/x697)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/1 "2017-09-02T15:55:21Z")
I’ve been mining ZEC for around a month now with a GTX 1080. I used to get 1 - 2 payouts a day; the interval between the payouts was around 14 - 15 hours. However, recently, I’ve noticed it takes 18 - 19 hours in between payouts. Is this because of the rising price of ZEC? I use Flypool, could it be because of the pool? Or is it simply just a rise in difficulty? If anyone could clarify it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![nekkidtruth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/nekkidtruth/32/5600_2.png) [@nekkidtruth](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/nekkidtruth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/2 "2017-09-02T16:14:40Z")
Increase in miners. Increase in difficulty. Choose one or both 🙂 To expand, the network hashrate has gone up which means more miners (or at the very least more mining power). This drives difficulty up as well. Higher difficulty and higher number of miners equals lower payouts. This equates to taking longer to hit your auto payout number. ---
**Author:** ![Uche32](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/uche32/32/11569_2.png) [@Uche32](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Uche32)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/3 "2017-09-02T16:43:21Z")
no one told you its gonna be like that for ever or that it will be easy. ---
**Author:** ![m42orion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/m42orion/32/6603_2.png) [@m42orion](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/m42orion)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/4 "2017-09-02T20:04:40Z")
Suply of coins are still same during 24h, but number of miners are higher and higher … piece of cake for each miner are still smaller and smaller 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AL888](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/al888/32/9327_2.png) [@AL888](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/AL888)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/5 "2017-09-03T13:44:26Z")
ETH and XMR more Profitable ![profit](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/original/2X/9/9a082565c39673a7236d3812a97c05a97a22bc95.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/kek/32/17068_2.png) [@kek](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/kek)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/6 "2017-09-03T13:45:12Z")
good luck, and good bye! ---
**Author:** ![m42orion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/m42orion/32/6603_2.png) [@m42orion](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/m42orion)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/7 "2017-09-03T14:08:16Z")
I hope that each of zcash miners switch to ETH 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dushan76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@dushan76](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/dushan76)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/significant-increase-in-difficulty/21095/8 "2017-09-03T14:17:43Z")
Sure, if you mining ZEC with AMD. NVIDIA is different story… Here’s a couple of rules: 1. DON’T MINE ZEC WITH AMD!!! 2. DON’T MINE ZEC WITH AMD!!! 3. DON’T MINE ZEC WITH AMD!!! 4. DON’T MINE ZEC OR ANY EQUIHASH COIN WITH AMD!!!