It may have been too good to be true but clever marketing.
It's very good to know you are not asleep at the wheel/switch poolwaffle.
Keep up the good work, stay on the ball,
The early bird catches the 1st worm and all that.

Theres a typo in your last sentence. "Early bird gets no sleep, hammers away on a makeshift proxy, and then gets dicked around by a marketing scheme"

They still look like they're paying out 100 LTC/block (2x), so as soon as that stops, I'll cut the proxy (and re-enable if it goes back to 2x).
Lunch time, back in about an hour (I'll be watching their stuff remotely - and can disable if needed).