Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 318,528

August 31, 2014. Difficulty rose by +15.03% to 27.43B from 23.84B.


Change	+15.03%
New difficulty	27.43B
Period length	12.2 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$501
Hashprice then	$9,499/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.2 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 15.03%: 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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