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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 701,568

September 21, 2021. Difficulty rose by +3.16% to 19.00T from 18.42T.

Change+3.16%
New difficulty19.00T
Period length13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)140.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$42,450
Hashprice then$324/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 3.16%: 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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