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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 610,848

January 1, 2020. Difficulty rose by +6.57% to 13.80T from 12.95T.

Change+6.57%
New difficulty13.80T
Period length13.2 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)97.1 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$7,207
Hashprice then$143/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.2 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 6.57%: 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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