DGB is so dead at the moment. It's hard to keep the hopes up when no new updates are announced in such a long time. The mining situation is horrible and the bear market doesn't help either.
DGB appeared at the same time with Bitcoin and was mining all this time with a profit exceeding or equal to Bitcoin. I expect that DGB will remain even when most of today's top coins disappear forever! To promote DGB, it is necessary to conduct several social PR campaigns of companies or airdrops and then take off upwards!
As all PoW-Coins DGB will dissapear within the next 12-24 months, if they dont switch to PoS. PoW has no future. It is an ecological disaster and it is completely in chinese hands. Noone will trust a currency that is in the end controlled by china.
Ether recognized that fact. Thats why i am sure, that Ether will be number one crypto in 12 months at latest.
The algo switching they plan right now, seems to me, as they are not thinking about changing form PoW to PoS. This is what makes me quite afraid. They should have taken this effort they put into this algo switching thing to do the PoW to PoS - switch.
The fact, that they exclude a complete groupd of miners (Baikal), is the next thing, DGB will regret, as this group will left the DGB project. The reasons they tell for it are ridiculous.
First, there are no ASIC-resistant algortihms. In best case there are some "few months" ASIC-resistant algorithms.
Second, they do it for decentralization reasons, but they keep the two most centralized algorithms...
But ok, i tried to tell them. The only thing i got back from them was insults for me... They can do whatever they want to. My Baikals are paid and made me some huge profits. So i am fine.
I made a lot of money with dgb, but i sold everything to get into a much better, promising PoS-Project... The future of crypto is PoS not PoW.
All currencies that miss this part and do not switch in time will be lost in my opinion...
Nobody cares about the power used. The power generators love the extra profits. POW, IMO, is far superior to POS. POS rewards rich fat cats. POW anybody can do if the algo is ASIC resistant.