Blocks seem to have slowed down a little more over the last day.
Apparently, 70% of Chinese miners had shutdown by about the 23rd, and by the end of the month that number would be 90%. End of the month right now so might be holding true. We definitely need that difficult change though, good thing transactions are majorly down otherwise there would be a big traffic jam.
I bet the dollar signs in Phil's eyes are spinning right about now with this circa 25% difficulty decrease we are looking at.
My Chinese miner info comes from the following
https://twitter.com/SinoCrypto/status/1407524185228840965Wow.. yeah. those already set up with equipment are probably getting great windfalls out of how this whole situation is unfolding, so far. Of course, there are some uncertainties involved in regards to whether the facts are true, and surely people are looking out for if games are being played which also might bring some relief to the difficulty level downgrade
at this point projected to come on this upcoming Thursday or perhaps Friday if the hashing power continues to go down in a kind of seemingly cascading way.