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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 294,336

April 5, 2014. Difficulty rose by +22.23% to 6.12B from 5.01B.

Change+22.23%
New difficulty6.12B
Period length11.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$452
Hashprice then$37,658/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.5 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 22.23%: 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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