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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 461,664

April 13, 2017. Difficulty rose by +4.24% to 520.81B from 499.64B.

Change+4.24%
New difficulty520.81B
Period length13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)3.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$1,190
Hashprice then$551/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.24%: 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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