POS 2.0 is very off putting by the sound of it, from what I have picked up from this thread, and of course I may be wrong, there is no way I would be able to stake - my client is open for most of the day, but importantly not ALL the day. It would prove utterly unviable and makes the coin seem, at least from my n00bish view very inaccessible.

I've been on this coin's wagon from pretty much the start and if it's such an unpalatable concept to me (a non-hardcore but dedicated minter) imagine how it looks from the outside, for people who cannot dedicate that kind of up-rig time to staking but who wish to get involved, it basically negates away one of this coin's major selling points.

If you can't stake then what value does Mint have to a user? I would certainly have very little incentive to open my wallet at all.

I'm not very au fait with the security risks that people feel that it would address, but surely there has to be a compromise point between making a coin seem so hard to get into and maintain that it puts people off and surely stymieing its potential growth and managing any inherent security considerations?