Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 372,960

September 4, 2015. Difficulty rose by +4.98% to 56.96B from 54.26B.


Change	+4.98%
New difficulty	56.96B
Period length	13.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$227
Hashprice then	$1,997/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.3 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.98%: 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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