The way I see it one of the problems Pascal coin has right now is mining is centralized.  With centralized mining some exchanges may be reluctant to list PASC over fear of a 51% attack.  The developers, it is my understanding, are proposing a CPU algorithm to seek to address the problem.  I'm not at all sure the current algorithm is the problem, that is to say with suprnova gone there is 1, ONE, pool to mine pascal, correct me if I am wrong.  What if one goes through all the effort of putting a new algorithm in place at the end of which there is ONE mining pool, and possibly lots of botnets?  So again it would seem the problem is there need to be more mining pools for Pascal, this doesn't seem like a terribly difficult problem to solve.  The developers could 1) reach out to established pools and ask them to include Pascal, 2) talk to their programmer friends about creating mining pools 3) If they built the coin they sure could build a mining pool.  So developers could build a Pascal mining pool take the 1% mining fee, 1% right and put the revenue towards coin development.  Might not be much, but until or unless PIP11 passes it is something.

For the past three weeks or so I have been happily dual mining ETH/PASC at nanopool. If I had someplace else to point my six GPUs for PASC I likely would and definitely would if I knew the mining fee was going towards coin development. There may be something I am missing in all this like a problem with ASICs or some such but I am not sure changing the algorithm solves the problem of too few mining pools.  Even though I am not a programmer I am half tempted to try and set up a PASC pool myself, probably not a great idea unless I had a lot of expert help.  Anyways, my two cents and something to think about.