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Data / Mining difficulty / 2013
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2013 at 2.98M (January 1, 2013) and closed at 1.18B (December 31, 2013), up 39533.1%. The high was 1.18B on December 21, 2013 and the low 2.97M on January 23, 2013.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2013 | 2.97M |
| February 2013 | 3.65M |
| March 2013 | 6.70M |
| April 2013 | 10.08M |
| May 2013 | 12.15M |
| June 2013 | 21.34M |
| July 2013 | 31.26M |
| August 2013 | 65.75M |
| September 2013 | 148.82M |
| October 2013 | 390.93M |
| November 2013 | 707.41M |
| December 2013 | 1.18B |
Every 2,016 blocks — roughly two weeks — the network resets how hard it is to find a block so that one arrives about every ten minutes. When hashrate has grown, difficulty goes up; when machines switch off, it comes down.
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