April 27, 2022. Difficulty rose by +5.56% to 29.79T from 28.23T.
Change
+5.56%
New difficulty
29.79T
Period length
13.3 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
220.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$38,810
Hashprice then
$179/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 5.56%: a large adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.