Guys here is some math behind this coin.
First we should assume that usually coins tend to fall into equilibrium of price-per-coin and difficulty of network. I.e. if coin price is suddenly UP so follows the network. If coin is heavily dumped then less people are willing to mine it and thus usually all coins tend to have quite equal profitability from the same GPU's. For example look at current profitability of most equihash coins. I used $1.5 profit per day from GTX 1060 class GPU as a typical average for short-mid term.
So if we put block reward 1.56 of BTCP into whattomine ZCash (both coins have similar characteristics except block reward) calculator then we could play with possible scenarios of above-mentioned equilibrium. Here is the link:
https://whattomine.com/coins/166-zec-equihash?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hr=300.0&br_enabled=true&br=1.56&d_enabled=true&d=3695598.0&p=100.0&fee=0.0&er_enabled=true&er=0.10000000&cost=0.06&hcost=0.0&commit=CalculateSo guys I should tell you overall picture is quite bad. Even if we assume BTCP will cost about 1000 USD (0.1 BTC) then difficulty should be around 30-40 times lower then now to provide comparable "standard" profitability. This is around 700 k sol/s. It's something like 300-400 rigs total capacity. If there will be more - less profit for everyone. Furthermore, if we put 100 bucks per coin (which many here can consider as more realistic), then we have capacity only for 30-40 rigs in total! That creates insanely huge risk of 51% attack. Another words, I think, if this math is right, then this coin will not be able to survive if it will cost less than around 1000 USD. Likely devs made "all-or-nothing" bet on this...
What do you think? Is that math is correct?