At the moment, value is primarily based off what some miner is accepting for the coins they earned. Your coins mined now will not get decent returns until these "easy-mined" coins have all been purchased. The coins they are selling NOW are the coins they/we mined BEFORE the diff-hike. Keeping the value from spiking, will stop those guys from taking what value should be yours, in the future, as they take it now. EG, you raise the price, we will cash-out and take it before you. We have more coins, that cost us less to produce. That makes it harder for you to cash-out later, if the price rises too early. Staying low, forces us to hold, or limits our cash-outs. Transferring value to the ones who purchased those coins now, which will rise later. Then THEY will be YOUR competition, not us, who got them easier. YOU will then be able to sell YOUR cheaper earned coins, faster than those people who purchased them. Thus, at that FUTURE DATE you will be in OUR shoes. They will be complaining just like you are now.
Allowing it to spike, simply brings TONS of hoppers, who will try to instantly flash-diff through the roof, lowering everyone's reward. They would then pump the hell out of the market, using very few BTC, with little resistance. (Thus a false premature rise/pump.) Then once enough have been "suckered" and there was enough listed volume below... They would dump.
You want to control the market, and stop people from cashing-out... Don't list high volume to buy, which tempts them to cash-out for one lump-sum. Make them pay for it, by listing only a few at each level. If they are that desperate, they will cash-out lower, at a loss to them, and at a gain to you. On the reverse, if you want the price to rise, don't throw walls that stop people from being able to let the price rise. Walls are great, if they are behind a few low-valued coins.
Using walls to try to push a market up or down is just moronic. Someone will swipe-up those easy lump-sum coins, then instantly re-list them on the other side as a wall in the opposite direction. To win, you have to snipe-up coins from unlisted holdings.
Remember, everyone who mined before you, got them with less effort and at a lower production cost. Those who come after you, if you are mining now, will get even less than you. (Unless you leave, then they will be the ones getting more than those who follow in later days.)
This is not a day-trade coin, and these are not day-trade exchanges. You are not a day-trader, stop pretending to be. (Or keep pretending, I like taking your losses and turning them into my gains.
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P.S. That was to no-one in general. Just my typical rant to the children crying over not getting rich from a scam-coin... Go play with MOON or LOTTO or KITTEH or another one of those fake value coins. They are dropping from the markets anyways. Soon, if you are lucky, they will have to be traded against DEV-COIN in order to have any possible value. I feel sorry for the guys who fell for those scams. It's a hard lesson to learn, but not one that is easy to digest. Those coins were made to pull you off of valuable coins, and manipulated to hell, to take any value you had. Cut your losses and move on or stay and sink with those ships.
P.P.S. If you are having issues comparing this coin to darkcoin... You might want to stop buying and mining, until you figure that out. Just saying... (Not that there is anything wrong with darkcoin. But there is little comparison, other than the fact that they are both just coins.)
You want the price to raise... Buy coins. Also, mine them, to sustain the difficulty, so future listings of coins can not be sold as low. It is just as simple as that. The more it rises, the more miners will come to mine it... So don't come back again and then complain that diff is too high. The price would have to lower, to make the diff fall lower. Diff is supposed to climb, that is what drives the price up. If diff doubles, everyone is getting half as many, and they have to ask for twice as much. If you have not figured this out yet... Again, you should not be mining.