I believe it is rented hashpower
cool, now I will switch my GPU's to ETN to help out!
Cool! I wonder why they don't update the difficulty function so it doesn't drop the first 60 blocks? Can't they change back later after the difficulty goes down?
The difficulty algorithm is set in the code and cannot be changed now without another change. I feel sorry for ETN as they did not see this scenario and hence did not implement additional logic to fix/reduce difficulty for x number of blocks.