The difficulty jumped through the roof and block discovery times tanked. Clearly this coin has nothing to do with Venezuela, but someone somewhere thinks so and is throwing some serious mining power at it. It jumped for 15mil to 61mil.

I've looked the OP, but it didn't cover what the difficulty adjustment time was, transactions have come to a complete stand still. Hopefully the network adjusts to the influx of hashing and things start to flow again.