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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 340,704

January 27, 2015. Difficulty fell by -6.14% to 41.27B from 43.97B.

Change-6.14%
New difficulty41.27B
Period length14.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$274
Hashprice then$3,092/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 14.9 days, longer than the 14 intended, so hashrate had fallen, and difficulty fell by 6.14%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay rise of the same size until the next retarget.

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