Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 282,240

January 24, 2014. Difficulty rose by +22.59% to 2.19B from 1.79B.


Change	+22.59%
New difficulty	2.19B
Period length	11.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$811
Hashprice then	$191,187/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 22.59%: 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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