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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 417,312

June 21, 2016. Difficulty rose by +6.83% to 209.45B from 196.06B.

Change+6.83%
New difficulty209.45B
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.5 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$724
Hashprice then$1,799/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 6.83%: 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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