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Data / Mining difficulty / 2017
Bitcoin mining difficulty since 2013, stepping at every retarget.
Mining difficulty opened 2017 at 317.69B (January 1, 2017) and closed at 1.87T (December 31, 2017), up 489.6%. The high was 1.87T on December 18, 2017 and the low 317.69B on January 1, 2017.
| Month | Month end |
|---|---|
| January 2017 | 392.96B |
| February 2017 | 440.78B |
| March 2017 | 499.64B |
| April 2017 | 521.97B |
| May 2017 | 595.92B |
| June 2017 | 711.70B |
| July 2017 | 860.22B |
| August 2017 | 888.17B |
| September 2017 | 1.10T |
| October 2017 | 1.45T |
| November 2017 | 1.35T |
| December 2017 | 1.87T |
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 2017: 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