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Difficulty rose 5.92 percent at block 971,712 on 16 October 2026, to 140,577,680,051,919.62 from 132,716,002,350,731.27. On the subsidy alone, 3.125 BTC a block at that height, one TH/s earns an expected 44.72 sats a day. The retarget's nBits, 17020093, follow by the consensus rule from period 481's first and last block times, and the block's hash was matched on a second operator.
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Chain · Every difficulty period since genesis, its difficulty exact from the block header.