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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 407,232

April 14, 2016. Difficulty rose by +7.09% to 178.68B from 166.85B.

Change+7.09%
New difficulty178.68B
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$424
Hashprice then$1,201/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.1 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 7.09%: 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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