The algo switch is coming (don't know when since bushido can't work on it right now) but it will probably help the price but algo switch alone won't help much if the community is not willing to push things forward. We need to look at Dogecoin for a good example of the power of a community.
I agree. The whining on /r/vertcoin is just bad.
People claim such nonsensical stuff. Apparently now VTC has "failed its premise of ASIC resistance" because it'll get a couple of months of ASIC mining. Those guys probably live in a perfect world where nothing ever went wrong to them.
Believe it or not, I think having a couple of months of ASIC mining will be beneficial to the alts ecosystem as a whole. I hope VTC will recover from the blow.
It will recover only if the majority start to act and stop waiting for everything to fall in place. If we want this coin to survive, we need to put everything in place as a community and it start by funding a dev team to take over bushido work since he's not able to do it right now. We need a marketing team and mostly we need these two teams to talk to each other a lot for better result.
When those 2 things will be in place, it will be time to focus on other things. Because right now if we don't have both of those teams, this coin will go nowhere.