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Data / Difficulty adjustments / 2016
The size of every bitcoin difficulty retarget, as a percentage.
Difficulty adjustment opened 2016 at +9.12% (January 13, 2016) and closed at +2.43% (December 28, 2016), down 73.4%. The high was +20.06% on February 7, 2016 and the low -5.43% on August 2, 2016.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2016 | +5.89% |
| February 2016 | +13.44% |
| March 2016 | +4.46% |
| April 2016 | -0.01% |
| May 2016 | +2.60% |
| June 2016 | +6.83% |
| July 2016 | +0.04% |
| August 2016 | +1.56% |
| September 2016 | +6.82% |
| October 2016 | -1.90% |
| November 2016 | +10.68% |
| December 2016 | +2.43% |
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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Also in 2016: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · Network hashrate · Mining difficulty · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market