To the OP, why do you think the difficulty decreased this period?
Because some farms shut off their miners silly!
We're already at that point were the price drop isn't covering hosting and electrical costs...
difficulty decreased?

you call -0.73% on 40 billion difficulty decrease???
0.73% every 2 weeks compounded?
That's 20.82% annualized?
That's worse than my credit card.
Yes, in that case, I'd say that difficulty
decreased.