Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 374,976

September 17, 2015. Difficulty rose by +4.17% to 59.34B from 56.96B.


Change	+4.17%
New difficulty	59.34B
Period length	13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)	0.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then	$228
Hashprice then	$1,958/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.17%: 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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