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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 653,184

October 17, 2020. Difficulty rose by +3.62% to 20.00T from 19.30T.

Change+3.62%
New difficulty20.00T
Period length13.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)144.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$11,567
Hashprice then$74/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 3.62%: 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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