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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 451,584

February 4, 2017. Difficulty rose by +7.43% to 422.17B from 392.96B.

Change+7.43%
New difficulty422.17B
Period length13.0 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)3.1 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$997
Hashprice then$585/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.0 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 7.43%: 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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