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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 405,216

April 1, 2016. Difficulty rose by +0.82% to 166.85B from 165.50B.

Change+0.82%
New difficulty166.85B
Period length13.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$415
Hashprice then$1,257/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 0.82%: a small correction. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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