the "icelander should cpu-mine idea" is a drop in the bucket, I think. not enough hashing power.

paying for scrypt hashing power could work (either outright or using bounties for pools to find blocks < 5400).

The problem is: we're driving away the icelandic noobs who must think this coin is broken (which it is... confirmation times in the range of days can be called "broken", like banking system) or this crypto-stuff just doesn't work.. must be a fad.