Yeah globalcoin has gone all weird. The diff has been way too high now for almost no hash power on the network. I think it went in to repair mode after that 0.06 diff session a few days ago.
That's the way it works with a difficulty retarget of 600 blocks. We're somewhat prone to difficulty strip-miners nowadays.
With 2Gh/s on the network during the 0.06 diff the retarget ramped up to 12.3 diff. Many miners then jumped ship leaving it stranded with another 294 blocks to go for difficulty retarget and only 20Mh/s on the network.
At the current diff and network hashrate we're looking at over a week to find those 294 blocks that will then invoke the diff retarget towards a more suitable level for the network speed
I believe an improved retarget algo is being looked into for the next update to help with this.
Current block: 179,706
Time since last block: 0h 16m 47s
Network hashrate: 22,373 Kh/s for perspective that's around 37 Radeon 7950 GPU's.
Current difficulty: 12.31608598
Est. Next difficulty: 0.20836757 in 294 blocks / 8d 1h 5m at current hashrate.
Est. Total coins mined per day at current difficulty: 3,654 Globalcoins