Tracking Difficulty Level & Block Reward & Comparing to Bitcoin

MUTO, you should be able to pull a lot of these values from the data collected by peerchain.net. Take a look at this [url=http://www.reddit.com/r/peercoin/comments/1yi2un/peerchainnet_live_peercoin_network_statistics/Reddit post that describes how some of the API calls[/url] can be used to compare data over a time period.