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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 433,440

October 8, 2016. Difficulty rose by +7.17% to 258.52B from 241.23B.

Change+7.17%
New difficulty258.52B
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)1.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$615
Hashprice then$620/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 7.17%: 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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