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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 469,728

June 4, 2017. Difficulty rose by +13.90% to 678.76B from 595.92B.

Change+13.90%
New difficulty678.76B
Period length12.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)4.9 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$2,555
Hashprice then$989/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.3 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 13.90%: one of the largest adjustments on record. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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