Hash rate is always increasing at an incredible rate.
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Difficulty adjusts for this every 2016 blocks
On average about 1.08% per epoch. So that's about 5 seconds per block.
https://twitter.com/mutatrum/status/1599783895251099648
26 seconds per 10 minutes is almost 4.5%.
I'm making an error somewhere, but I don't see it.
Yep, this.