September 5, 2025. Difficulty rose by +4.89% to 136.04T from 129.70T.
Change
+4.89%
New difficulty
136.04T
Period length
13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
972.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$111,499
Hashprice then
$54/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.4 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 4.89%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.