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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 665,280

January 9, 2021. Difficulty rose by +10.79% to 20.61T from 18.60T.

Change+10.79%
New difficulty20.61T
Period length12.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)149.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$38,501
Hashprice then$230/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 10.79%: one of the largest adjustments on record. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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