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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 237,888

May 25, 2013. Difficulty rose by +8.64% to 12.15M from 11.19M.

Change+8.64%
New difficulty12.15M
Period length12.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$133
Hashprice then$4,551,157/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 8.64%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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