This is due to its price, which is causing an influx of people trying to become part of "The Next Bitcoin." Something 90 percent of the people here missed out on. If the coin was not on market as was the case 1 weeks ago, there would be no one interested. This is the cause of a 250 diff to multi-million
SFT I respect most of your posts even though we seldom agree, but here you've gone off the deep end. There was no 250 diff, that was testnet data on a pool web site. The correct diff chart is here:
http://monerochain.info/charts/difficultyA week ago, when Monero not on an exchange (in fact not even any rumors of being on a major exchange soon -- poloniex was a surprise to all of us), the diff was 17 million, which is almost 3x the current BCN hash rate.