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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 445,536

December 28, 2016. Difficulty rose by +2.43% to 317.69B from 310.15B.

Change+2.43%
New difficulty317.69B
Period length13.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)2.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$930
Hashprice then$716/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 2.43%: 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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