Why this coin uses equihash as PoW algorithm? Why doesn't it use others such as Lyra2, scrypt, SHA256, X11, etc? I am mainly interested in the technical reasons behind this choice. I know there are aspects of asic mining, but maybe there are more reasons...
I think, the main reason is just ASIC-resist, like Dagger (Ethereum):
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/dagger.htmlhttps://z.cash/blog/why-equihash.html