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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 556,416

December 31, 2018. Difficulty rose by +10.03% to 5.62T from 5.11T.

Change+10.03%
New difficulty5.62T
Period length12.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)40.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$3,811
Hashprice then$168/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 10.03%: 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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