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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 421,344

July 18, 2016. Difficulty rose by +0.04% to 213.49B from 213.40B.

Change+0.04%
New difficulty213.49B
Period length14.0 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.5 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$680
Hashprice then$812/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 14.0 days, longer than the 14 intended, so hashrate had fallen, and difficulty rose by 0.04%: 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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