The crucial point though tends to come when the miners move on. How many months or weeks or days will it take for difficulty to come back down? How many hours or days betwen blocks in the meantime?
I will be very interested to see what happens at that point. I cannot imagine that it will be as bad as some others.
With FTC it will be the worst ever because, you see, LTC is about to hit the Gox. Once that happens, your pathetic fork will be forgotten. Ohh, cruel destiny!
That's not what I see happening subSTRATA. There are people like myself who will no longer mine BTC and LTC, they are looking towards another coins.
The amount of volume FC moves is puny compared to BTC and LTC, and that trend will continue once LTC is listed on Mt. Gox.