Darkcoin had first mover advantage doing POS. They're allowed to make mistakes and won't suffer harshly for it. If UTC goes the same direction, it will essentially have to fight an uphill battle towards attempting at perfection and will be punished horrible for every little mistake it makes. If the community and people that are part of UTC wanted this coin to flop and die, they would've left it long ago. All I can add to what the management should be doing is to not follow the trend of full pos and their subsequent failures, but keep at their original premise of being an asic resistant crypto currency. I have heard recently that Vertcoin isn't even asic resistent anymore so theres that... I'm sure given time, people will start migrating and rediscovering UTC's value. If dev team wanted, they can decrease the block reward further to restrict the amount of coins generated a day they can simply reduce the block reward. As stated over and over again, 43,200 UTC is generated a day. which is around .8-1.1 bitcoins that can and will be dumped a day. By reducing the block reward to 5, they can reduce that number to .28-.37 btc that can be potentially dumped a day. It is reasonable to maintain this value with the given market. UTC will eventually rise as a result of this action. What was .28-.37 will attempt to return to the norm of .8-1.1 BTC. I agree with the previous posts. I can't ask where the devs had received their advice, but it is extremely ill advised to go full POS when that type of model hasn't even been around for a long enough period to be truly understood and scrutinized.