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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 596,736

September 26, 2019. Difficulty rose by +7.31% to 12.76T from 11.89T.

Change+7.31%
New difficulty12.76T
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)89.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$8,939
Hashprice then$197/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.1 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 7.31%: 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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