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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 235,872

May 12, 2013. Difficulty rose by +11.03% to 11.19M from 10.08M.

Change+11.03%
New difficulty11.19M
Period length12.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$116
Hashprice then$4,173,890/PH/day

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 11.03%: 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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