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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 481,824

August 24, 2017. Difficulty fell by -3.80% to 888.17B from 923.23B.

Change-3.80%
New difficulty888.17B
Period length14.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)6.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$4,262
Hashprice then$1,401/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 14.6 days, longer than the 14 intended, so hashrate had fallen, and difficulty fell by 3.80%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay rise of the same size until the next retarget.

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