Bitcoin network difficulty went up 1.88 percent from 209453158595.38098145 to 213398925331.32391357 today. This is the last difficulty adjustment before the mining subsidy is cut in half at block 420,000.1 At press time we are at block 419376. Tick, tock, tick, tock!
It also coincides with the anniversary of the BIP 66 Clusterfuck event. Imagine that. Bitcoin has enough history for major "This day in history" type events to begin filling up a calendar. ↩