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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 342,720

February 9, 2015. Difficulty rose by +7.71% to 44.46B from 41.27B.

Change+7.71%
New difficulty44.46B
Period length13.0 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$224
Hashprice then$2,631/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.0 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 7.71%: 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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