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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 322,560

September 25, 2014. Difficulty rose by +16.20% to 34.66B from 29.83B.

Change+16.20%
New difficulty34.66B
Period length12.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$424
Hashprice then$6,096/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.1 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 16.20%: 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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