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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 578,592

May 30, 2019. Difficulty rose by +11.26% to 7.46T from 6.70T.

Change+11.26%
New difficulty7.46T
Period length12.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)53.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$8,390
Hashprice then$301/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 11.26%: 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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