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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 790,272

May 18, 2023. Difficulty rose by +3.22% to 49.55T from 48.01T.

Change+3.22%
New difficulty49.55T
Period length13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)365.0 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$27,153
Hashprice then$79/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 3.22%: 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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