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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 477,792

July 27, 2017. Difficulty rose by +6.92% to 860.22B from 804.53B.

Change+6.92%
New difficulty860.22B
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)6.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$2,679
Hashprice then$719/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.1 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 6.92%: 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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