August 8, 2025. Difficulty rose by +1.42% to 129.44T from 127.62T.
Change
+1.42%
New difficulty
129.44T
Period length
13.8 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
966.4 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$116,718
Hashprice then
$57/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.8 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 1.42%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.