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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 387,072

December 6, 2015. Difficulty rose by +8.77% to 79.10B from 72.72B.

Change+8.77%
New difficulty79.10B
Period length12.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$387
Hashprice then$2,344/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 8.77%: 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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