Difficulty: 144,116,447,847
Next: 178,425,017,594
Hash Rate: 1,236,498,466 GH/s
Estimated Next Difficulty: 178,784,614,714
(+24.06%)This is a clear sign of going up... miners investing more and burning more electricity in anticipation for bull run.
There has also been new more efficient asics deployed. I have no way of knowing what portion of the increase is due to what.
If things go as usual the bull run should happen right before I get fresh fiat next month