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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 399,168

February 19, 2016. Difficulty rose by +13.44% to 163.49B from 144.12B.

Change+13.44%
New difficulty163.49B
Period length12.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.1 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$421
Hashprice then$1,298/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.3 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 13.44%: 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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