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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 568,512

March 24, 2019. Difficulty rose by +5.11% to 6.38T from 6.07T.

Change+5.11%
New difficulty6.38T
Period length13.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)47.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$4,012
Hashprice then$156/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 5.11%: 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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