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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 338,688

January 12, 2015. Difficulty rose by +8.20% to 43.97B from 40.64B.

Change+8.20%
New difficulty43.97B
Period length12.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$270
Hashprice then$3,403/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 8.20%: 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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