so while solo mining goldcoin for the fun of it. cgminer said block found accepted, my wallet, which is brand new, says transactions 1.  yet nothing shows under transactions tab, nothing listed as immature, or unconfirmed. I guess i dont get it. usually when i get an orphan it just shows as rejected in cgminer, this one said accepted and even my wallet shows "number of transactions: 1" Never encountered this and couldn't find relevant information when searching the forums.

If the majority of miners stopped mining right before a difficulty retarget causing the hashrate to drop as the retarget took place, and then started mining again after, couldn't the difficulty be manipulated and not actually scale with total network power?