This chain is about to get stuck for many hours. Some idiot is attacking it right now with 20x its global hashrate to push the difficulty to the moon.
Once it is done, the moron will piss off and laugh at the 80kH/s of genuine miners wasting their electricity for hours and hours.
Since the attacker is not willing to mine 24/7 and pay the cost for the difficulty he is creating, it is indeed an attack and it should be countered by banning the fucking moron.
The pool operator should be able to see it in his backend. Let me guess, a monkey with a rented gun from nicehash.
What good is ASIC resistance and its implied decentralisation for if an idiot can rent 20x the global hashrate of a coin from nicehash to wreak havoc.
Fortunately he is too stupid to set up his private pool and do other kind of attacks which would be much worse.
Here, I found him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxqIITtTtU