Diff retarget is supposed to happen after 36 blocks, or at block 20290+36 = 20326. It happened at block 20304, which is 14 blocks. Blocks were found every 5mn, if a retarget should have come sooner, it should have increase to 30, not go down all the way to 4.
Pray for it not to go down to 1 in 2 blocks (20318).

When somebody donates at least 0.01 CAT and I see everything works correctly I'll make a thread about my faucet - Catcoin Purrer

block target time 1 minute?

Is this something I have said, or something you are assuming?

If a low hashrate loyal miner goes through a loyalty-supporting pool, and mines 0.054 coins during a particularly difficult time, the pool would indicate to him he has earned 0.054 coins plus 0.054 loyalty credits. A high hashrate loyal miner solo mines, and finds 10 blocks during a difficult time, and each time he found a block, he sees in his QT wallet, that he has gained 50 coins, plus 50 loyalty credits, for a total of 500 coins and 500 loyalty credits.

Now, the difficulty level goes way down, and it is easy to mine blocks. The low hashrate loyal miner continues mining through the pool, and he pretty quickly earns 0.054 coins and in the process extinguishes the 0.054 loyalty credits. A non-loyal slow miner who did not earn loyalty credits contributes the same amount of hash to the same pool (jumping in for the easy difficulty), but not having earned loyalty credits during the previous high difficulty era, receives only .027 coins, per rules of the coin.

In the meantime, the loyal solo miner, quickly finds 10 blocks during this easy difficulty era, and each time he finds the block, he extinguishes 50 loyalty credits and receives 50 coins. At the end of the easy mining era, he has acquired 500 coins, and used up all the loyalty credits. A non-loyal solo miner decides to jump in to try to take advantage of the easy difficulty level with equal hash power, also solves 10 blocks, but because he did not have any loyalty credits to extinguish as he solved each block, he only got 25 coins per block solved, for a total of 250 coins. Maybe he decides he'd better stick around and mine this coin during difficult times, so next time the easier difficulty comes around, he can earn 50 coins per block. And this is precisely the behavior we want to encourage.

In what way do these scenarios fail to differentiate between slow loyal miners and fast hop miners, or reward the fast hop miners for their behavior?

The fork is precisely an engineered inflation, no more, no less. This is a fact, regardless if it grants a beautiful feature for the coin instead of a certain death, or not.

Yes, after the changes are made, there won't be any more inflation and inflation won't be the right word anymore. But it is now.
The coin will accept and build in the inflation which is already happened. But instead of a random, natural and temporal inflation, it will be engineered and permanent.

This way, my loss isn't just blind luck anymore, or the will of many thousands. It is a decision of a few (at the very end, actually a single) person.
This is relevant for me when I talk about how I feel about the coin.

Except if people jump into and out of mining the coin, it will not recalibrate to 10 minutes. Maybe the difficulty retargets it will be somewhat more moderated, but that's because we are hiding the symptoms by changing things so fast that we are hoping miner-dumpers don't keep up. But that is regularizing the difficulty adjustments, in the same sense as claiming that security by obscurity is real security. It is easily defeated by coding.

In a way, having the long block adjust time, serves to highlight the underlying problem, like a canary in a mine showing up toxic gasses before people start dying. I would consider this a subtantial virtue of the long difficulty adjustment period. It provides an opportunity to perceive the problem in purer, exaggerated form, so that a real fundamental fix can be test as a true long-term solution for real. Shortening the difficulty adjustment poriod is like simply taking the canary out of the mine, and would not be a legitimate way to improve the health of miners. (pun not intended).

Mark my words - this will lead to endless cycles of a 12-24 hours at high difficulty (e.g., 30 minute block time x 36 = 18 hours), followed by very easy difficulty for less than an hour (e.g., 1 minute block time x 36 = 36 minutes) during which time miner-dumpers will put massive hashing power to get cheap catcoins and dump on the markets, followed again by 12-24 hours at high difficulty when loyal miners suffer, and repeat over and over again. Just a speeded up version of the same problem. Coin prices languish. The problem is the oscillation with the inherent temporary high hash power combined with dumping of the cheaply mined coins, at the expense of loyal miners - and not just the particular unrealistically high difficulty phase / slow confirm times. High difficulty is merely a symptom.

Starting difficulty: 0.00024414 

Why? This diff is so low that a single gpu can mine 2 week amount within hours.

block date                       
0   2013-12-23 22:38:22
2016   2013-12-24 01:08:48
4032   2013-12-24 01:36:06
6048   2013-12-24 01:58:43

How can it be fair, that 2 month CAT supply was mined in 3 hours?

Im geting avg 0.045 from 2.7mh which is about $35 a day, so you are well down, 

....so OP is a fag...?

THE 2016 IS NOT PART OF THE PROTOCOL.

IT'S PART OF MAINTAINING THE PROTOCOL.

first, by changing the parameters of catcoin, you won't save catcoin, you'll replace it with another coin that is also named catcoin. the catcoin that we all invested in a week ago will not exist anymore.  

second, the economics of changing the currency when we feel it isn't worth as much as it should be, and it's too difficult to wait 126 days for a redifficulty adjustment:  these are not economic arguments either:  they play on people's lack of patience.  

it took bitcoin more than 126 days to reach $0.05USD.

The changes are already agreed.

I was doing EU/US load balancing for 4hrs on 1 rig, 8 hrs of just US, (both rigs) other than that EU all the time.
Seems like today it will end exceptionally bad for me 
http://middlecoin2.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/reports/1Fv1iXJo818UPCn3ttPcyn2xpi2D6SCNKP.html

Others will similar hash rate are way ahead of me.
e.g: http://middlecoin2.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/reports/1MYMgE3rTPW17RsbfsqUMVhPrphanyuHUP.html
http://middlecoin2.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/reports/1KV3AUZ9jH24Ux7YfVwUxmkitoYAYEs3HM.html
etc..

What can I check which can explain this?
I know many don't like noobs complaining of low payouts on this forum, but had to ask... 

Guys,
 if forking saves the Cat, why not now but wait a day ??

Actually, that hasn't been determined AT ALL.  Lowering the diff MAY get the pumpndump miners back, but nobody's committed to mining with or without the fork.  Without hashrates in hand, we're just shooting blind here.  As for the hashrate, trust me, we all are WELL aware that nobody's mining and that confirmations are few and far between.  I'm just not sure that we need to get pushed into a fork to make pool miners that have already failed (ask yourself WHY a single miner was able to spike the diff, its because there's not enough mining at normal diffs to survive the attack) happy.  At this point in life, this is looking an AWFUL lot like a pig in a poke. 

Changing the retarget time requires a change in the wallet. It wouldn't be practical or realistic to manipulate the coin like that. No exchange would touch it.

it's a week old and $0.50 usd it saw $1.00usd it's first day in trade
there are 1000000+ coins plenty liquid
do any of you know how long it's taken bitcoin to touch any of that?