Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 330,624

November 18, 2014. Difficulty rose by +1.76% to 40.30B from 39.60B.


Change	+1.76%
New difficulty	40.30B
Period length	13.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$389
Hashprice then	$5,038/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.76%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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