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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 538,272

August 24, 2018. Difficulty rose by +5.29% to 6.73T from 6.39T.

Change+5.29%
New difficulty6.73T
Period length13.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)48.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$6,526
Hashprice then$254/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.3 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 5.29%: 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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