There is a Future for those in the Punic Wax mining pools to, of course create your own Pool, but also to be a Witness on a BLURT Clone.

BLURT is a Steemit Clone, a Graphene DPoWS like Bitshares and OpenLedger, they are all the same Technology.

The way PoW works is that Mining the Blocks in the Blockchain by hashing them is the Work, PoW is Proof of Work. So your hashing power goes in looking for a Block, who ever has more gets the most blocks. So mining Farms full of ASICs and Mining Pools with ASICs get all the Blocks. When not many people were mining Bitcoin, you could just mine with your Laptop.

PoS is Proof of Stake, much more simple. You hold it, your open wallet staking coins is a node, your hashing Power comes not from Electricity consumption, but from your holdings. The higher % you hold, the more Blocks you get, the more interest you get.

DPoWS means you mine like Bitcoin, but mining is voted on, so the competition comes not in how many people are mining, but instead how many people are voting for you.

This is achievable by having a team of dedicated miners not simply moving the network forward, but holding up a website used by many others who are less dedicated to the backend aspect of Blockchain. So the website users Vote on a group of Miners that are on the Blockchain side.

SocialGraph is the group that made BLURT, and they intend to make a BLURT Forking machine, meaning anyone can pick a day they liked their community's wallet balance on BLURT, and Fork over to their own website where all BLURTers have accounts with the same balance as they did that day. Then whoever chooses to use it can.

But to do this, we will need Dedicated Backend Blockchain people who know what to do when it is time...