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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 264,096

October 16, 2013. Difficulty rose by +41.45% to 267.73M from 189.28M.

Change+41.45%
New difficulty267.73M
Period length9.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$141
Hashprice then$239,567/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 9.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 41.45%: 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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