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Re:Bitcoin has computed 2^83.9 hashes by mrb on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:32AM (#10978417)
The difficulty does not NEED to be ever increasing. In fact there are periods of time where the difficulty is pretty stable, such as mid-2011 to early 2013, or the first half of 2015: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/speed-ever.png
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