I decided to go ahead and pre order an obelisk machine - decentralising PoW for now can only be a good thing - though with most of the PoW hashing power being from the dual mining now , I supposed it will be a contraction really - but if the price rises then more people will invest in asics

and I would expect that the majority of the coins mined will be staked as people hold

any progress for DCR to become used in transactions will only help the price - I hope the devs are interacting with openbazaar