"Board member Andrew Miller is planning to create a proposal through the grants program to convene a Technical Advisory Board to provide scientifically grounded inputs into this decision."

"Based on continued community approval and the results of our investigation above, we have a rough goal of developing and submitting a mitigation plan through the ZIP process, targeting a deployment in late 2018."

In the age of Uber, they will take a good year to sort this out. Just WOW!!


Edit: In case they have doubts on ASIC capabilities, here's one doing 40K:

https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/asicminer/equihash-40k

Good luck!