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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 411,264

May 11, 2016. Difficulty rose by +8.73% to 194.25B from 178.66B.

Change+8.73%
New difficulty194.25B
Period length12.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$451
Hashprice then$1,157/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 8.73%: 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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