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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 312,480

July 25, 2014. Difficulty rose by +8.08% to 18.74B from 17.34B.

Change+8.08%
New difficulty18.74B
Period length13.0 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.1 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$604
Hashprice then$16,849/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.0 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 8.08%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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