Prices go up, prices go down. It's still early days. I just don't get the excitement, gutters, fight-or-flight, or what ever you call it like i used to. Just had to grab a few at 3.8mbtc though. Bitcoin takes for ages. Anyhow....
One thing i have not heard people talking about is DAG size. If we go to a Hybrid PoW/PoS and defuse the difficulty bomb at the same time, are we going to do something with the DAG? You can mine Expanse (Ethash) with a 1GB GPU as far as i understand. You need a minimum of 2GB GPU to mine Eth and Etc. But the DAG file is growing up over 1.5GB. Later this year 2GB GPUs will be no good on the current chain. Do we just lose those smaller cards?
I imagine the 2gb cards will just have to be sold or re-purposed on other algo's. It is my understanding that due to the memory intensive dag and algo it makes it harder for the ASIC's to come in and run the show.
There were some comments made eariler about making the coin a CPU only coin. That does have some merits and would make it harder for the ASIC's to come in and wreck things.
If we stay POW this will be a factor because it now would pay for the ASIC development if they know that this is going to be a long term thing. So I think we have to keep the ASIC threat in the back of our minds as we are planning the next steps.
Cpu algo is a bad idea man, botnets run the show. Been there seen it happen, it's not good lol. I still think we should keep things simple, keep Dagger, no PoS, keep the miners on our side then down the road after a lot of planning discussion and weighing options work on the more complicated things. Right now like suchmoon suggested we need to clean up some loose ends and start adding some features that make etc have a purpose other than just the one that didn't try and manipulate the blockchain. Just my opinion.