The reason this coin got stuck at a high difficulty is because some pools.. bettercoin in particular didn't pay out fairly at launch. I was mining right at the beginning finding blocks.. blocks were being found every second.. and none of my hashrate was reported on their website. I continued to mine there because the admin was posting on the site that payouts would catch up.. this was a lie. I didn't receive any payouts until block 2500 or so when I was submitting shares from block one. Only got 80 coins from the pools 90,000 coins that were found in the first hour or two. Then they switched to pps.. felt ripped off and scammed.. and bettercoin was supposedly the official pool.. complete bs.