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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 699,552

September 8, 2021. Difficulty rose by +4.54% to 18.42T from 17.62T.

Change+4.54%
New difficulty18.42T
Period length13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)134.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$47,046
Hashprice then$342/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.54%: 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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