If in the future the miners once again try to takeover Bitcoin with a hardfork we'll be ready.
But otherwise we wouldn't want to hardfork Bitcoin for no reason, one of our core principles is not to disrupt the core chain needlessly.

Due to the peaceful cancellation of segwit2x we're aborting this project for now with mixed emotions
should the miners once again become a problem we will be ready to re-launch.

thanks you everyone for your support
today was a great victory for Bitcoin

source code for working pool and miner are linked in the OP
a public mining pool is being set up for testnet and mainnet, stay tuned for updates
a windows binary for the miner is also in the works

you weren't ignored
there will be compiled stuff before the start, which is in 10 days
we are now in public testnet phase aimed at devs, and the mainnet version hasn't been released yet

in any country where bitcoin works

You can help by spreading the word on social media! 

You are correct, and we have.
The mining difficulty will be reset when the PoW changes, and emergency retarget has been also been implemented
that's what is written in the OP as well.
i was answering a comment about block time and rewards and didn't realize i was making too general of a statement.
The core principle is to only change what needs to be changed

it's a bitcoin hardfork, we only changed the PoW algorithm

As explained in the OP, the value comes from the fact that the current bitcoin miners have been actively holding back progress for years and are now openly talking about killing the existing chain with a few ideas on the table about just how they could do it

updated the info cuckoo cycle PoW parameters

Update: Project Aborted! (for now)
Due to the peaceful cancellation of segwit2x we're aborting this project for now with mixed emotions
should the miners once again become a problem we will be ready to re-launch.

thanks you everyone for your support
today was a great victory for Bitcoin Smiley

Background

In recent months it has become self-evident that bitcoin mining is extremely centralized.
While the greater community shows almost no interest in the 2X fork, the threat of using said
centralized hashrate to disrupt the core chain to the benefit of 2X or BCash for a long period of time remains real.

An ASIC resistant PoW alternative where ASIC miners are not able to slow down progress must be available for the community.
(And Equihash forks with premine and consensus rules changes are clearly not it, sorry)


Cuckoo Cycle

We've picked the most ASIC resistant algorithm we could find:
https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo


Commitment to zero disruption to core chain

• We will fork on the same block as 2X does. This serves a double purpose:
   1. Services are already suspending activities because of the 2X fork
   2. If the core chain is attacked (reorg, wipeout, double spends, …), this is the time to offer the alternative
• "Magic bytes" are changed so Resilience nodes will not connect to core nodes

Details

Algorithm: Cuckoo Cycle: 42-cycle with a graph size of 2^30 (2^20 on testnet)
Premine: No.
Added Difficulty retarget: Emergency only
Two-Way Replay Protection: Yes
Intended for GPU mining.


Contribute

This project is done by volunteers, and we need your help!
If you're interested in supporting this project, please join our slack:
Invite Link


Projects and sources

Node: https://github.com/hodlor1/bitcoin/tree/resilience
Pool implementation: https://github.com/hodlor1/ckpool
Miner implementation: https://github.com/hodlor1/sgminer
(Miner is provided as reference implementation as is not fully optimized)