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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 824,544

January 6, 2024. Difficulty rose by +1.65% to 73.20T from 72.01T.

Change+1.65%
New difficulty73.20T
Period length13.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)537.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$43,848
Hashprice then$91/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.65%: 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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