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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 252,000

August 13, 2013. Difficulty rose by +35.88% to 50.81M from 37.39M.

Change+35.88%
New difficulty50.81M
Period length10.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$107
Hashprice then$997,528/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 10.3 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 35.88%: 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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