December 19, 2022. Difficulty rose by +3.27% to 35.36T from 34.24T.
Change
+3.27%
New difficulty
35.36T
Period length
13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
245.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$16,680
Hashprice then
$64/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 3.27%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.