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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 590,688

August 18, 2019. Difficulty rose by +1.98% to 10.18T from 9.99T.

Change+1.98%
New difficulty10.18T
Period length13.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)72.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$10,242
Hashprice then$247/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.98%: 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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