I agree that it's a perception thing. But people will buy PoS coins if they have a material use, which Cloak clearly will. Also, I'm thinking figuring out how to mine would be tougher for the average person than going to mintpal would be. Most of the DRK holders now are probably not miners.
Well, let's be honest, none of us
know any coin will have a long-term material use. We think they will based on either the community. I don't agree that figuring out how to use (and trust) mintpal is the same as learning how to mine. There's too many articles out there teaching people about bitcoin mining and it's a much more intuitive leap to learn how to mine other coins.
I actually am still mining DRK, because why not? Let's say i have a rig that mines 1 DRK a day. Sure it's not profitable at the moment, but it might pay off someday. It also could just be pissing money away.
I think we'll agree to disagree that POS coins are intuitive to newcomers, whereas a mineable coin holds a different "public" (not crypto-junkies) perception. POS coins for me will always just be for traders.