November 5, 2016. Difficulty rose by +0.40% to 254.62B from 253.62B.
Change
+0.40%
New difficulty
254.62B
Period length
13.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
1.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$703
Hashprice then
$739/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 0.40%: a small correction. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.