July 18, 2024. Difficulty rose by +3.21% to 82.05T from 79.50T.
Change
+3.21%
New difficulty
82.05T
Period length
13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
603.2 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$64,324
Hashprice then
$50/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 3.21%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.