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Data / Difficulty adjustments / 2024
The size of every bitcoin difficulty retarget, as a percentage.
Difficulty adjustment opened 2024 at +1.65% (January 6, 2024) and closed at +1.16% (December 29, 2024), down 29.9%. The high was +10.50% on July 31, 2024 and the low -5.63% on May 9, 2024.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2024 | -3.90% |
| February 2024 | +8.24% |
| March 2024 | -0.98% |
| April 2024 | +1.99% |
| May 2024 | +1.48% |
| June 2024 | -0.05% |
| July 2024 | +10.50% |
| August 2024 | +2.99% |
| September 2024 | -4.60% |
| October 2024 | +3.94% |
| November 2024 | +0.63% |
| December 2024 | +1.16% |
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 · 2023 · 2022 · 2021 · 2020 · 2019 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013
Also in 2024: 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