Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 278,208

January 2, 2014. Difficulty rose by +20.12% to 1.42B from 1.18B.


Change	+20.12%
New difficulty	1.42B
Period length	11.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$749
Hashprice then	$255,705/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 20.12%: 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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