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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 249,984

August 3, 2013. Difficulty rose by +19.63% to 37.39M from 31.26M.

Change+19.63%
New difficulty37.39M
Period length11.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$105
Hashprice then$1,241,414/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 19.63%: 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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