All of the small guys buying ASIC's to mine this coin will soon find out the hard way just as I did a long time ago mining Bitcoin with ASIC's; that they cannot compete with the manufacturers. The only community this crackpot team will have remaining will be operators of secure nodes and super nodes along with a few centralized ASIC manufacturers. And probably some speculators on the exchanges. As far as actually USING this coin? Hell no! I'm pointing everyone towards Monero.
Moving to a blockDAG should allow us to collapse the difficulty to a point where single GPU solo mining is possible once again. This has been talked about for 8+ months now and has always been the mid term solution we're aiming for.
The recent decision simply means that we aren't willing to risk a drop in hash by shifting parameters.
The real solution to decentralise mining is and almost always has been the blockDAG, that's why it's a fully funded project that's already well underway.
Rowan StoneI totally agree with it. I think the team is just moving the right way and I can't wait to see the next steps. After rebranding, more eyes will be upon us and we must tkae this opportunity to show the hard work the team is putting into this project.