Mining Electroneum became very hard after the first day, so only way to keep the network running is shutting down pools that can't find any blocks. The developers need to correct the network difficulty or eventually the coin will flop because transactions become almost impossible to be confirmed. Some people predict the coin will be worth $480 in few years. The problem with the current network is that every few blocks it creates alternative branches and whole network needs to resynchronize. Nobody can mine during the resynchronization as all found blocks are discarded when mining on alternative branches.