I also noticed that the blockchain gets stuck from time to time. I will just keep my miner running and see what happens. I won some blocks tonight so it seems to work for now. I will just lower my expectations a bit knowing that it can get stuck. When the blockchain problems are fixed I think mining difficulty will rise as well but so far CPU mining profitability seems not to be worse than other CPU minable coins.
Masternode seems to be a nice feature. I guess that many master nodes will help the blockchain so it is a good thing. Maybe I will try it in future when I have earned more credits.
With regard to the blockhain getting 'stuck' we have identified an issue in the code that affects how the difficulty is calculated. We are working on v1.2.0 to correct the difficulty calculation and are also working on bringing getwork back into the code to allow for 3rd party CPU miners to be used. When the chain does get 'stuck' sending a few 1 CRDS transactions between wallets will get it moving again. I'm keeping an eye on it all the time and moving it along whenever I stop seeing new blocks solved.
As always, Credits Discord is the best place to have your question answered quickly - https://discord.gg/Q89fuR
I tried the trick to send 1 CRDS between my different wallets and I think I got a stuck blockchain moving aigain :-)
Maybe you can write some kind of automatic script that detects if it get stuck and start moving around some CRDS to make it running so you don't have to manually watch it?
I already made the script to switch to other coin mining whenever stuck blockchain is detected.
I guess I can input a tx command inside instead of a switching one... BUT... is there a way to make a transaction using console? (no deamon, just gui wallet, windows environment)