August 8, 2015. Difficulty rose by +0.81% to 52.70B from 52.28B.
Change
+0.81%
New difficulty
52.70B
Period length
13.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
0.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$279
Hashprice then
$2,714/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 0.81%: a small correction. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.