The change was intentional, because in testing the difficulty was not lowering and no staking was occuring. Defaced and Thundertoe thought that lowering the initial difficulty would break it loose, which in testing worked just fine. On the actual launch, we all saw the chaos that ensued, not all of which was because of this. Tranz says this was not necessary to unstick the frozen POS blocks, and Presstab seems to agree. Since both of them are better programmers than I'll ever be, I'll not question that too much, except that the fix was NOT working until that line was changed. Press, Tranz, could you perhaps elaborate on why that could be? I'm not officially part of the dev team here, and probably never will be, but I do talk to them all the time and I am a huge fan of this coin. Whatever else may come to pass, I want to see it working correctly. I intend to dedicate a lot of my resources to promoting this beast, and it needs to work correctly for that to happen.