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Data / Mining difficulty / 2014
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2014 at 1.18B (January 1, 2014) and closed at 40.64B (December 31, 2014), up 3341.5%. The high was 40.64B on December 30, 2014 and the low 1.18B on January 1, 2014.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2014 | 2.19B |
| February 2014 | 3.82B |
| March 2014 | 5.01B |
| April 2014 | 8.00B |
| May 2014 | 10.46B |
| June 2014 | 16.82B |
| July 2014 | 18.74B |
| August 2014 | 27.43B |
| September 2014 | 34.66B |
| October 2014 | 35.99B |
| November 2014 | 40.30B |
| December 2014 | 40.64B |
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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Also in 2014: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · Network hashrate · Difficulty adjustments · Fees paid to miners · Transactions per day · Hashprice · Miner revenue · Bitmain releases and the bitcoin price · Break-even electricity price · What a bitcoin costs us to mine, against the market · Hash ribbons