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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 225,792

March 14, 2013. Difficulty rose by +10.98% to 4.85M from 4.37M.

Change+10.98%
New difficulty4.85M
Period length12.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
Bitcoin price then$47
Hashprice then

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 10.98%: one of the largest adjustments on record. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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