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Data / Difficulty adjustments / Block 389,088
December 18, 2015. Difficulty rose by +18.14% to 93.45B from 79.10B.
| Change | +18.14% |
| New difficulty | 93.45B |
| Period length | 11.9 days |
| Network hashrate then (7-day) | 0.7 EH/s |
| Bitcoin price then | $457 |
| Hashprice then | $2,523/PH/day |
The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 18.14%: one of the largest adjustments on record. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.
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