May 15, 2026. Difficulty rose by +3.12% to 136.61T from 132.47T.
Change
+3.12%
New difficulty
136.61T
Period length
13.6 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)
994.6 EH/s
Bitcoin price then
$80,089
Hashprice then
$38/PH/day
The 2,016 blocks before it took 13.6 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 3.12%: an ordinary adjustment. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.