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Data / Difficulty adjustments / 2022
The size of every bitcoin difficulty retarget, as a percentage.
Difficulty adjustment opened 2022 at +0.41% (January 8, 2022) and closed at +3.27% (December 19, 2022), up 697.3%. The high was +13.55% on October 10, 2022 and the low -7.32% on December 6, 2022.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2022 | +9.32% |
| February 2022 | +4.78% |
| March 2022 | +4.13% |
| April 2022 | +5.56% |
| May 2022 | -4.33% |
| June 2022 | -2.35% |
| July 2022 | -5.01% |
| August 2022 | +9.26% |
| September 2022 | -2.14% |
| October 2022 | +3.44% |
| November 2022 | +0.51% |
| December 2022 | +3.27% |
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 2022: 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