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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 431,424

September 25, 2016. Difficulty rose by +6.82% to 241.23B from 225.83B.

Change+6.82%
New difficulty241.23B
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$599
Hashprice then$677/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 6.82%: 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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