August 28, 2024. Difficulty rose by +2.99% to 89.47T from 86.87T.
Change
+2.99%
New difficulty
89.47T
Period length
13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
637.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$59,308
Hashprice then
$47/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 2.99%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.