May 17, 2025. Difficulty rose by +2.13% to 121.66T from 119.12T.
Change
+2.13%
New difficulty
121.66T
Period length
13.7 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
846.3 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$103,180
Hashprice then
$56/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 2.13%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.