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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 534,240

July 29, 2018. Difficulty rose by +14.88% to 5.95T from 5.18T.

Change+14.88%
New difficulty5.95T
Period length12.2 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)42.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$8,056
Hashprice then$339/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.2 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 14.88%: 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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