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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 485,856

September 18, 2017. Difficulty rose by +19.58% to 1.10T from 922.72B.

Change+19.58%
New difficulty1.10T
Period length11.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)8.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$3,679
Hashprice then$969/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 19.58%: 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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