Slightly-more-available link <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinwisdom.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;difficulty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bitcoinwisdom.com&#x2F;bitcoin&#x2F;difficulty</a><p>Hash rate has increased by 41.9% over the same period, so the difficulty has kept the time-to-generate relatively fixed - just the way it&#x27;s supposed to work.<p>The real news is that someone or someone(s) have added ~200PH&#x2F;s worth of processing power to the network in the past 30 days. This is probably from some high-power ASIC miner being released, or from some consolidated mining concern going live.