Why difficulty went 5x up ?
because the Multi pools are throwing 120-200 Ghash at the coin
this is ok cause large number of people obtained significant % of the coin supply in the beginning, reward structure was calculated very well
one still could mine couple of thousands by renting if you willing to spend BTC, seeing mining gear now between 200 and 800 MHS probably rentals they draw couple of thousands of LTCD a day and going against time table because 1/2 reward will happen not far from Today
a bit of advice.. burry LTCD wallet deep underground and triple encrypt with AES 512 or AES 1024 even if you have 1K of them
