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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 256,032

September 4, 2013. Difficulty rose by +32.22% to 86.93M from 65.75M.

Change+32.22%
New difficulty86.93M
Period length10.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$129
Hashprice then$697,423/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 10.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 32.22%: 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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