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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 425,376

August 15, 2016. Difficulty rose by +7.67% to 217.38B from 201.89B.

Change+7.67%
New difficulty217.38B
Period length13.0 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.5 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$567
Hashprice then$733/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.0 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 7.67%: 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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