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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 542,304

September 20, 2018. Difficulty rose by +1.90% to 7.15T from 7.02T.

Change+1.90%
New difficulty7.15T
Period length13.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)49.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$6,496
Hashprice then$247/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.90%: 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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