Go into your debug console and type "clearbanned".  The network continually bans nodes, this will restore them after a minute or two.

I don't see this as being scrypt.  My cpu mines this coin at 1.6MHs, which isn't scrypt...this is a sha256 cpu pace.  Both scrypt and sha256 are available in the source, I haven't dug far enough to know what's really going on, but it isn't scrypt.

Pools are rejecting because of incorrect nBits, error 500 in yiimp.

Unfortunately the dev has a few fundamental problems on this launch.  Let's see how it goes....