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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 447,552

January 10, 2017. Difficulty rose by +6.05% to 336.90B from 317.69B.

Change+6.05%
New difficulty336.90B
Period length13.2 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)2.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$884
Hashprice then$850/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.2 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 6.05%: 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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