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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 524,160

May 24, 2018. Difficulty rose by +3.94% to 4.31T from 4.14T.

Change+3.94%
New difficulty4.31T
Period length13.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)30.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$7,512
Hashprice then$487/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.5 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 3.94%: 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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