February 19, 2021. Difficulty rose by +1.35% to 21.72T from 21.43T.
Change
+1.35%
New difficulty
21.72T
Period length
13.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
151.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$52,581
Hashprice then
$302/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.35%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.