I am still sure there is something fishy going on with the difficulty and certain pools being attacked at the moment all be it none of them can put their finger on the cause and it's being put down to "Luck" While we all know luck can be a bitch of a factor in mining just look at the block distribution some pool hammering block after block in succession is not something that can put down to just "Luck"

There was a possibility of miners doing something nefarious on pools to bring their luck right down but for the life of me, I can't seem to find the article about it now.

If it turns out that some of the larger pools are doing something that can damage other pools chances of finding a block then we as a community need to find the solution to the problem because right now all this in-fighting between dev's all this forking carry on really is going to end in a serious disaster some point we need to put a stop to this somehow and get back to the core values of what bitcoin was all about in the first place not being bent each way to suit different parties.

I do fear that in time we will see more mega hashrate from China burst onto the network pushing the smaller miners out by even more.

You just need to watch this to understand why things need to change sooner rather than later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6kibPzbrIc