If you look at our net hash, in the past 12-18 hours it has gone from about 34 to around 50 and the difficulty has gone right up with it. Popularity is kind of a double edged sword, I topped 3M coins in 11 days of mining last night and double digit xxM at the lower difficulty would've been nice, but at the same time, popularity and uses is what will give the coin value. I could go another 3 weeks to a month at low net hash, the plan is not to race to the top, but to be more like the tortoise rather than the hare.  That being said, I'm glad to see that we're gaining some recognition and regardless of where our little coin goes in the short term, I'm in it for the long run and have no plans on letting go of my coins on the cheap in the near future. I'm on the mine and hold strategy and I'm hoping a lot of my partners in this adventure are with me, that's how we're gonna get where we want to go.  Keep mining brothers and sisters!