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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 532,224

July 17, 2018. Difficulty fell by -3.45% to 5.18T from 5.36T.

Change-3.45%
New difficulty5.18T
Period length14.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)36.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$6,810
Hashprice then$327/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 14.5 days, longer than the 14 intended, so hashrate had fallen, and difficulty fell by 3.45%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay rise of the same size until the next retarget.

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