Here are some charts for those who want to see how the Primecoin network is performing:
http://xpm.muuttuja.org/charts/
The chain rate tries to estimate the network calculation power. Right now it’s quite messy and hard to read because of the transitions over integer boundaries in the past. I’m still considering how to best address those.
Most awesome!!
Very nice charts and will be great to track the progress of primecoin on so many things 
well done
Correct me if i’m wrong … but looks like 5th August there was possibly some breakthrough on the GPU miner?? or was that the release of the press release and more attention hence the rise in difficulty?
FuzzyBear
*** side note *** Enjoyed examining the charts with this playing https://soundcloud.com/figcake/the-special-guests-pikey 8)
excellent charts!
[quote=“FuzzyBear, post:2, topic:348”]Most awesome!!
Very nice charts and will be great to track the progress of primecoin on so many things 
well done
Correct me if i’m wrong … but looks like 5th August there was possibly some breakthrough on the GPU miner?? or was that the release of the press release and more attention hence the rise in difficulty?
FuzzyBear
*** side note *** Enjoyed examining the charts with this playing https://soundcloud.com/figcake/the-special-guests-pikey 8)[/quote]
Well, I think most difficulty jumps are caused by miner improvements combined with increasing attention leading to additional miner deployments. The mining power seems to have increased by about 300% between Aug 2 and Aug 11.
I released my HP9 miner on Aug 3 which seems to have caused the initial rise of difficulty. While HP9 was a big release, it wasn’t a 300% improvement. Which means that a lot of additional miners were being deployed after the release.
It’s likely that there were some other news reports that attracted more attention to Primecoin as well. According to the wiki there were quite many news reports written in early August: