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Data / Difficulty adjustments / 2023
The size of every bitcoin difficulty retarget, as a percentage.
Difficulty adjustment opened 2023 at -3.59% (January 3, 2023) and closed at +6.98% (December 23, 2023), down 294.4%. The high was +10.26% on January 15, 2023 and the low -3.59% on January 3, 2023.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2023 | +4.68% |
| February 2023 | +9.95% |
| March 2023 | +7.56% |
| April 2023 | +1.72% |
| May 2023 | +3.40% |
| June 2023 | -3.26% |
| July 2023 | -2.94% |
| August 2023 | +6.17% |
| September 2023 | +5.48% |
| October 2023 | +2.35% |
| November 2023 | +5.07% |
| December 2023 | +6.98% |
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%.
Other years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013
Also in 2023: 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 · Miner prices per terahash · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price