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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 645,120

August 24, 2020. Difficulty rose by +3.60% to 17.56T from 16.95T.

Change+3.60%
New difficulty17.56T
Period length13.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)119.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$11,789
Hashprice then$93/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.5 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 3.60%: 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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