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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 717,696

January 8, 2022. Difficulty rose by +0.41% to 24.37T from 24.27T.

Change+0.41%
New difficulty24.37T
Period length13.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)181.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$41,709
Hashprice then$235/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 0.41%: a small correction. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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