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Data / Difficulty adjustments / 2014
The size of every bitcoin difficulty retarget, as a percentage.
Difficulty adjustment opened 2014 at +20.12% (January 2, 2014) and closed at +3.00% (December 30, 2014), down 85.1%. The high was +26.16% on January 13, 2014 and the low -1.37% on December 17, 2014.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2014 | +22.59% |
| February 2014 | +21.92% |
| March 2014 | +17.80% |
| April 2014 | +14.64% |
| May 2014 | +18.10% |
| June 2014 | +24.93% |
| July 2014 | +8.08% |
| August 2014 | +15.03% |
| September 2014 | +16.20% |
| October 2014 | +2.81% |
| November 2014 | +1.76% |
| December 2014 | +3.00% |
Each bar is one retarget. Most are small and upward, because hashrate keeps growing. The large negative ones mark the moments miners switched off in numbers: China’s mining ban in mid-2021 produced the biggest cut in bitcoin’s history, −28%.
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