ajochems: I very much agree with your assessment. Network hash rate drops too far when multipools switch out. Seems there's even a risk of being forked during these phases. At times it drops to ~50MH/s or lower. Multipools also hurt the stability of the value as many probably hash directly to cryptsy with auto-sell active, so the market gets flooded with unwanted and undervalued coins.

Update on whitelabelcasino:
I got an answer from winningstreak (aka. whitelabelcasino). The answer is cautiously positive:
"Yes, basically we can do that."
I'm planning to follow up on this with a phone conversation later this week unless someone here disagrees. What I would need to know is how much code is available to implement CSC into their back office. What would I have to give them so they would be able to incorporate CSC? (This will not be an opensource project but rather a purely for profit thing.)

About the future value of CSC: $1/CSC seems hard unless we really go "full blown commercial grade" (i.e. with companies, whose business it is to operate at this scale). One cannot/should not try to have a successful $10M casino on a little VPS. Stability and trust (i.e. redundancy, security etc.) are extremely important in this business. When a server fails players shall not notice anything, or we quickly loose them for good.