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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 258,048

September 14, 2013. Difficulty rose by +29.56% to 112.63M from 86.93M.

Change+29.56%
New difficulty112.63M
Period length10.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$127
Hashprice then$558,399/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 29.56%: 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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