But I'm of the opinion that forcing any activity is going to be alienating and damaging to the coin.
Agree! The "repent" will make this coin only for religion instead of charity. The dev should use pos instead of pow since he is strong against mining.
I thought about POS in the beginning, but I read so many negative comments about people getting tired of waiting for their investment to grow, and others seem to like POW due to the exciting nature of finding a block. So I thought, you know, we can adapt POW to work with almost any complicated input. Our sanctuaries do act as a 50% POS buffer (they are an investment). Now we are more flexible as we have both.