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Data / Difficulty adjustments / Block 300,384
May 12, 2014. Difficulty rose by +10.66% to 8.85B from 8.00B.
| Change | +10.66% |
| New difficulty | 8.85B |
| Period length | 12.7 days |
| Network hashrate then (7-day) | 0.1 EH/s |
| Bitcoin price then | $438 |
| Hashprice then | $24,730/PH/day |
The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 10.66%: 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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