Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 280,224

January 13, 2014. Difficulty rose by +26.16% to 1.79B from 1.42B.


Change	+26.16%
New difficulty	1.79B
Period length	11.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$844
Hashprice then	$223,885/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.1 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 26.16%: 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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