https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=363201.0;all
It was launched around 10pm PST after he fixed it, 6 hours after the first post. 40-ish hours later (when the thread was locked), there were 2860 blocks fairly mined.
Still doesn't explain the 6 day old bitchain. My guess is that they premined it but whatever. It's not like they have anything more to gain other than the first 100,000 coins or so, unless it's being GPU mined.
Current info:
{
"blocks" : 6817,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 121.50701798,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}
Saw a ~250 diff when I checked this afternoon.