Difficulty keeps rising and demotivating many solo miners running typical home equipment very soon.
In order to keep this coin coming devs should setup or publish one pool by themselves and put out a bounty for two more pools quickly.
Before we can have pools we need cgminer or cpuminer adapted to the Vertcoin algorithm. I agree - it's certainly not too late to solomine yet, but it won't be long if the coin keeps attracting this kind of hashrate growth.
I'll put up an entire block of 50VTC towards a dev bounty if someone will get a pool-capable mining client out for VTC. Anyone else joining me?