Since launch the current rate average is 3.8 blocks a minute, currently getting 1 every 8 something minutes. nice instamine..
That was the difficulty catching up.. Random miners who saw the launch got the early blocks, not the dev team.
There was a several hour window of time where you could hop on without much power or rent some quick and score quite a bit of XCT. It wasn't as instant as it seems. Those blocks definitely flew though.