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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 518,112

April 14, 2018. Difficulty rose by +9.35% to 3.84T from 3.51T.

Change+9.35%
New difficulty3.84T
Period length12.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)28.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$7,895
Hashprice then$494/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 9.35%: 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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