At block number 20,000 (2013/8/31 22:56:33), Sifcoin difficulty was 27,
At block number 21,000 (2013/9/04 10:02:02), Sifcoin difficulty was 24,
At block number 22,000 (2013/9/07 20:29:39), Sifcoin difficulty was 22,
At block number 23,000 (2013/9/09 14:24:28), Sifcoin difficulty was 88 (shot up significantly),
At block number 24,000 (2013/9/25 10:47:07), Sifcoin difficulty was 250 (gradually decreasing now).
The peak of the difficulty:
At block number 23,743 (2013/9/13 00:48:45), Sifcoin difficulty was 506.
The main Sifcoin thread says the difficulty adjustment occurs every block and is calculated as: +-1% of mean last hour (I cannot understand the exact way of calculation though...).
As a result of the sudden shot-up in difficulty (and the big miner have left), the block generation slowed down a lot
Was Sifcoin attacked by someone (quarkcoin or securecoin supporters)?