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Data / Difficulty adjustments / 2020
The size of every bitcoin difficulty retarget, as a percentage.
Difficulty adjustment opened 2020 at +6.57% (January 1, 2020) and closed at -0.38% (December 28, 2020), down 105.8%. The high was +14.95% on June 16, 2020 and the low -16.05% on November 3, 2020.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2020 | +4.67% |
| February 2020 | -0.38% |
| March 2020 | -15.95% |
| April 2020 | +8.45% |
| May 2020 | -6.00% |
| June 2020 | -0.00% |
| July 2020 | -2.87% |
| August 2020 | +3.60% |
| September 2020 | +11.35% |
| October 2020 | +3.62% |
| November 2020 | +8.87% |
| December 2020 | -0.38% |
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 2020: 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