Looks like about two weeks
Yes, we may fork it in the future to speed up the retargeting
Do not do that. It may seem like the way, today. consider bitcoin and the gold standard. The same way a low difficulty attracts the hoard, and a high one dispells it, a constant confuses. Do not go the kimoto gravity well folly of scrypt and retarget block for block, this aides multiminers. Just be steadfast, honest and the hashing will go so high with none of that "merged mining" shite. I have been holding strong mining through the 253k for the drop, ofc, but consider how well ben is doing, and how it is not like other coins. to immediately change difficulty and fork the chain does not increase power, it diffuses it. this is not a scrypt coin, it does not need 30second retargeting for difficulty. it can be sustained by dedicated asics and become glorious. forks weaken coins, do not make me regret backing this one.
Agree. Leave it as is. Stick with it as is, if a block takes a little longer, so be it.
