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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 508,032

February 6, 2018. Difficulty rose by +10.43% to 2.87T from 2.60T.

Change+10.43%
New difficulty2.87T
Period length12.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)21.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$8,213
Hashprice then$787/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 10.43%: 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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