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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 858,816

August 28, 2024. Difficulty rose by +2.99% to 89.47T from 86.87T.

Change+2.99%
New difficulty89.47T
Period length13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)637.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$59,308
Hashprice then$47/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 2.99%: 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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