Scrypt. My coin is a litecoin fork. And okay. My unfinished site that goes into a bit more detail about the coin is http://zealchain.com.

My bro in law said he stopped mining, but the difficulty is still 5x higher than what it started at. Is he lying/mistaken?

Also, I'm wondering, since the difficulty isn't going down, what are my options on increasing my hps? I looked into cgminer but I don't know if that's the solution.

I've made an altcoin. I've been solo-mining using setgenerate true. I get about 5k hashes per sec. I know, it sucks. I told my brother in law about it and he started mining it. He gets ~50k hashes per sec. This increased the difficulty by almost 5x. So Instead of getting 5k of my coin per day, I'm now getting around 1k. I'd like to use more efficient software to mine my coin. How can I do this? Thanks in advance

I don't have an AMD or NVIDIA, I have an Intel i915. I'm trying to mine for free.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

Mike