my question is what pool/person is putting upwards of 5 GHash on this coin at times.
We do occasionally mine Batcoins at
https://prohashing.com. We offer payouts in any combination of Batcoin or 150+ other coins.
We can put up to our entire hashrate - about 10GH/s - at Batcoin, but that rarely, if ever, occurs. We have a smart algorithm where we limit the hashrate sent to any given coin so that the block time does not drop below a predetermined value.