SECURE THE NETWORK
If you don't wish to use p2pool, at least try to join a smaller pool. Ideally I'd love to see everyone using p2pool but that's not realistically going to happen and it's actually not ideal for very small (ie. less than one modern GPU) miners, but even if we could get all the traditional pools down to at most 15% of nethash, that would be a very significant achievement.
Sorry a bit OT with my opinion.
I think the cheapest method to deter ASICS or 51% is to make the protocol human and favour human more than ASICS. The email password and ID password method should be incorporate into crypto network protocol requesting randomly authentication through the miners client.
The current arm race will promote largest capital to drive more ASICS out from foundries and the original rational to create BTC will fail to achieve the objective of de-centralized control.
There is 2 distinct form of market. Free market comprise of human or market of robots HFT machines and ASICS. The latter are non-human friendly.
Asics are incredibly easy to defeat, you only need to have the will to do so. A 'more human?' protocol? What do you mean? I would not like to have any personal info in my account..
In my opinion a succesful coin will need to attend to the needs of all users, large capital holders and ordinary users. There is no (special) place for anti globalists in crypto.
Regarding the anti asic strategy; as i've posted in the vertcoin forum a true anti asic coin should have an automated system to notify users to update their wallets to a newer version, and users should be prepared for several hard forks in the lifetime of the coin. This will deter asic developers more than just the empty promise of being 'asic resistant'.
Up to now vertcoin hasn't proven to be anything more than a newer version of litecoin (which was also meant to be asic resistant or even proof). I am convinced vertcoin has a bright future, but now we can only speculate that a modified algorithm will be incorperated in vertcoin when the need arises. There's no integrated system to make such a change any easier than with ltc or btc..
Come to think of it; the adaptive-n schedule in fact suggests no change will be incorperated into vertcoin for the next decades!