based on what quite a few people have stated octocoin holding wise i wouldn't be surprised if we burn over 10 million octo at this point.
Looks like we might have some hashing support.
If people saw the jump in hash i wonder if random ppl would mine also lol.
I'm thinking closer to 20+ million octocoin will be burned.
The need for hash support will be highest when we are doing the actual swap. Most forks will self-correct within a few blocks unless there is a sustained attack... and even then it should switch to the longest chain (the sustained attack chain) in fairly short order. That being said... I have seen a fork recently that re-wrote 1500+ blocks of data and nearly brought a coin's network to a halt when it corrected itself to the proper chain.
We need an extremely stable network while doing the swap so that coins being sent to the burn address aren't sent on a bad fork. They should be recoverable, but I would hate someone sending in 1 million+ 888 (or any amount, for that matter) to get them lost on a fork, even if temporarily.
Hash rate has been higher, recently. Whether that is because of a couple more people mining or people seeing activity on the thread and trying to grab some more OctoCoin before the burn party... or hoping they can dump them on Xnigma if the price rises. I think the latter is what was seen the past couple of days when the hash rate jumped up to around 250mh/s.