September 18, 2025. Difficulty rose by +4.63% to 142.34T from 136.04T.
Change
+4.63%
New difficulty
142.34T
Period length
13.4 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
980.7 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$117,302
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 4.63%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.