It has happened again.
Current Diff: 1.879  
Global Hashrate: 1,213,870 KH/s
Next Diff:  5.1274

We should look for ways to build circuit breakers into DGC to prevent the swarm of locusts from pumping and dumping DGC like a cheap hooker.  Here is a few ideas I've seen thrown around: Rejecting blocks from a single source with more than %40 of the hashpower, To reject or que blocks that violate the minimum block time, or adjusting the difficulty at a faster rate.  CartmanSPC suggested "Develop the wallet/coin to throttle new blocks found based on an average of blocks found over the previous "x" period of time."

I know these solutions will produce orphans during spikes but I fear what will happen if we do nothing. In the short term its creating shortage of dgc and pushing the price up, which seems good in relation to the block reward dispute.  But in the long term it may drive off loyal miners making dgc vulnerable to attack between or during hashspikes (like what happened to FTC a few months ago).  If you look at the Multipool thread you will see the admin has a sadistic attitude towards most alt coins in general.  Something needs to be done before people loose confidence.

Multipool Discussion Referenced: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=263827.0