Folks, Short-term this is a blessing in disguise as people will continue to drop off of mining and thus make it massively easier to mine more coin for a while. I wouldn't whine too much about this. Mine. Hold. Donate. Wait.
This! I'm actually making more mining today than before the price drop. The easier difficultly has more than made up for the price drop.
Also, as a lurker and newb to all this, I just want to thank the core members that kept Anthony's departure from tanking BTCZ. I'm new to all this, but it's good to see how quickly everyone rallied to fill in the hole he left.
Mine On!