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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 429,408

September 12, 2016. Difficulty rose by +2.30% to 225.83B from 220.76B.

Change+2.30%
New difficulty225.83B
Period length13.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$604
Hashprice then$707/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 2.30%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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