It is an anti-cheat not an anti-mining. 6.996 difficultly is very low, and just 100 miners can easily break 7. And you already know once we break 7, the difficulty goes up until it stabilizes. That is how it works and has always worked. No one is cheating, just people mining.
So we went from 6.9943 to 6.996 within 36h and suddenly difficulty jumps from 6.996 to 7.0481 under 2h and still climbing.
Sorry to be doubtfull but that looks like botnet power coming to the network to me...
I told you near a year ago that your coin was being raped by russian cheaters using some kind of botnets. Your hardfork gave us 24h no more...
And if you read my post, you would know that we can monitor who is doing what, even if they are cheating. It is not a botnet, and once a whole number is broken, this ALWAYS happens. It is how the algo works. Either way, we are releasing the final step of our security update soon.
