October 22, 2024. Difficulty rose by +3.94% to 95.67T from 92.05T.
Change
+3.94%
New difficulty
95.67T
Period length
13.5 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
723.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$67,304
Hashprice then
$49/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.5 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 3.94%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.