I understand this was a coin with a ultimate short life cycle.
And what now with the guy who owns more than a million coins of nothing...
i guess we'll see now wont we. the coin wasnt intended to have a short life cycle. and the difficulty is still extremely low. so most likely it will keep rising.
heres an example of coins that are ALREADY merge mined with bitcoin
Namecoin difficulty 21,001,778,950
Ixcoin difficulty 16,647,643,438
Devcoin difficulty 18,933,307,301
and a few that are mined with sha-256
unobtanium difficulty 685,671
tigercoin difficulty 133,651
neoscoin difficulty 9,083,581
bigbullion difficulty 13,215,876
saffroncoin difficulty 1,113,636.9259
the only other sha-256 coins that fall in that range are
zetacoin at 39,351
joulecoin 53,995
fireflycoin 39,219
opensourcecoin 53,295.8797
takcoin 40,286