August 24, 2018. Difficulty rose by +5.29% to 6.73T from 6.39T.
Change
+5.29%
New difficulty
6.73T
Period length
13.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
48.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$6,526
Hashprice then
$254/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.3 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 5.29%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.