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Data / Mining difficulty / 2016
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2016 at 103.88B (January 1, 2016) and closed at 317.69B (December 31, 2016), up 205.8%. The high was 317.69B on December 28, 2016 and the low 103.88B on January 1, 2016.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2016 | 120.03B |
| February 2016 | 163.49B |
| March 2016 | 165.50B |
| April 2016 | 178.66B |
| May 2016 | 199.31B |
| June 2016 | 209.45B |
| July 2016 | 213.49B |
| August 2016 | 220.76B |
| September 2016 | 241.23B |
| October 2016 | 253.62B |
| November 2016 | 281.80B |
| December 2016 | 317.69B |
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 2016: Bitcoin price · Distance from the all-time high · 200-day and 200-week averages · 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