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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 266,112

October 26, 2013. Difficulty rose by +46.02% to 390.93M from 267.73M.

Change+46.02%
New difficulty390.93M
Period length9.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$187
Hashprice then$235,306/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 9.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 46.02%: 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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