April 24, 2024. Difficulty rose by +1.99% to 88.10T from 86.39T.
Change
+1.99%
New difficulty
88.10T
Period length
13.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
627.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$65,793
Hashprice then
$102/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.7 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.99%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.