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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 554,400

December 18, 2018. Difficulty fell by -9.56% to 5.11T from 5.65T.

Change-9.56%
New difficulty5.11T
Period length15.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)38.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$3,557
Hashprice then$167/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 15.5 days, longer than the 14 intended, so hashrate had fallen, and difficulty fell by 9.56%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay rise of the same size until the next retarget.

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