Firsthand Bitcoin · Data · Bitcoin miners

Data / Difficulty adjustments / Block 719,712

Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 719,712

January 21, 2022. Difficulty rose by +9.32% to 26.64T from 24.37T.

Change+9.32%
New difficulty26.64T
Period length12.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)197.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$38,686
Hashprice then$216/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 9.32%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

Previous: January 8, 2022, +0.41% · Next: February 4, 2022, +0.18%

Every adjustment, charted · The next one · Difficulty in 2022