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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 540,288

September 7, 2018. Difficulty rose by +4.34% to 7.02T from 6.73T.

Change+4.34%
New difficulty7.02T
Period length13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)47.9 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$6,772
Hashprice then$279/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.34%: 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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