As a miner, and a noob to PayCon, there is zero incentive for me to become involved with the coin if I don't own any already, as it's impossible to mine at this time.
Why should I bother ?
I tried to get in for the lulz, and now I'm just SMH at the myopia of its design (unless that's part of the joke to begin with)
You've never heard of a coin transitioning from PoW to PoS?
As a miner, you can mine whatever coins you're mining, and then you can exchange them for CON if you want.
Then, after you have a stake of CON, you can mine CON without using an ASIC or a GPU. That's why you should bother, because you can do more mining.