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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 697,536

August 25, 2021. Difficulty rose by +13.24% to 17.62T from 15.56T.

Change+13.24%
New difficulty17.62T
Period length12.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)125.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$49,407
Hashprice then$375/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 13.24%: 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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