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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 510,048

February 20, 2018. Difficulty rose by +4.62% to 3.01T from 2.87T.

Change+4.62%
New difficulty3.01T
Period length13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)22.5 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$10,979
Hashprice then$839/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.62%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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