Thank you for the bids everyone. In light of the recent crash I'm closing this auction without a winner. My plan is to continue development of the site to hopefully launch in a few months.
I have noticed even as the estimated difficulty was going down the overall network hash rate went up at night time. Probably because cards are running cooler and faster.
The difficulty will follow the price. Its surprising to me how quickly the network responds to price. Must have been some miners that shut systems down when they were unprofitable at $6.