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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 822,528

December 23, 2023. Difficulty rose by +6.98% to 72.01T from 67.31T.

Change+6.98%
New difficulty72.01T
Period length13.1 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)521.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$43,705
Hashprice then$114/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.1 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 6.98%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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