i think u missunderstand the nature of POW mining as most people see it

mine altcoins is just a way to earn BTC

this means a high percentage of POW coin rollout is direct sell pressure

the nature of POS that coins produce coins give buy coins and stake coins sense

and there is absolute nothing wrong with a codebase that forked from bitcoin 0.8x

it can pretty easy be upgraded to 0.9x too (and be honest what bitcoin ability that 0.9x didnt have already u need for ERC u will find none)

a codetree reach sooner or later a state where he is so different from bitcoin base that it have to be seen as a own tree

and that is true for PPC/NVC tree which all the POW/POS hybrid coins are based on


if u go POW the best advice i can give u is to make the POW coinrollout as low as possible

trust me 95% of POW miners dont care for the coin just the BTC they can sell the coin for

and ERC is not in a state to counter that constant sellpressure

to have more different people involved at ERC POW mining isnt helping at all

what u need is investors not miners

investors buy miners sell

its that easy