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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 254,016

August 24, 2013. Difficulty rose by +29.40% to 65.75M from 50.81M.

Change+29.40%
New difficulty65.75M
Period length10.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$108
Hashprice then$763,311/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 10.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 29.40%: 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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