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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 393,120

January 13, 2016. Difficulty rose by +9.12% to 113.35B from 103.88B.

Change+9.12%
New difficulty113.35B
Period length12.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)0.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$437
Hashprice then$1,960/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 9.12%: 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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