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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 320,544

September 13, 2014. Difficulty rose by +8.75% to 29.83B from 27.43B.

Change+8.75%
New difficulty29.83B
Period length12.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$475
Hashprice then$8,026/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 8.75%: 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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