January 15, 2023. Difficulty rose by +10.26% to 37.59T from 34.09T.
Change
+10.26%
New difficulty
37.59T
Period length
12.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
266.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$20,778
Hashprice then
$70/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 12.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 10.26%: one of the largest adjustments on record. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.