Look at the Network Size Graph. Since that shitstorm started there seem to be a significant drop. Some nodes not coping with all those transactions?
I'm currently mining on pool.burstcoin.eu. And I was very surprised yesterday, when instead of 200–300 BURST I receive daily I only received 39. Today is not much better — haven't received the payment yet, but only 69 BURST pending. How's that possible if the network size (and difficulty) dropped?
I don't yet have an explanation on why that's happening. But looking at the mined blocks — the pool seems to have much less then it used to. Yes, mining should not be affected in any way, but I can see a significant drop in payouts... Ugh, it doesn't make sense...