I guess I don't understand how / why the difficultly isn't changing? Blocks have a target of 20 seconds, but are taking 5-10 mins to mine. And still the difficultly is frozen at 0.42 for several months now. Is there something wrong with the code??? I think this coin may be officially dead....
Lets see the difficulty changes every 9 hours and the block time is 20 secs so... 9 x 60 x 3 = 1620 blocks between retargets...
The next retarget is at 408240... but it should have changed at 406620 and didn't so I'm guessing there is a problem with the code bigtime.. The Dev hasn't been around for months..
As for the coin being dead, well RYC hasn't had a block solved in ages, but cryptsy still trades it...
and yes I'm biased..I'm involved with SXC which did experience a drop, but is maintaining a value of around 3000 per USD.. of course I'm just one of a team of three, with another just starting to join. All of them are interested in SXC only and they have not released a string of failing altcoins...
It's got 11 sites accepting it as a currency, Theres merchandise in production, a new client about to hit the testnet, which took longer than expected because there were bugs to be squashed that most devs ignore, and a whole heap of stuff I can't mention, because again, some of them are things other Devs don't bother with, but I'd hate to make a promise the team didn't live up to, or let another coin steal a march on us..
My question is do you want to mine a coin that has a lot of hype but no real development or a coin that has real development with little hype?
. Cryptsy is getting better day by day, and I'm glad about that. We all had some issues with Cryptsy the last weeks. 
