In my opinion, it's a good thing to stay with the algo for now as a unique one of a kind makes Pyrite stand out amongst the other projects that share algos.
The community is having a vote in regards to potential hard fork due to FPGAs now mining on the network. Please cast your vote here: https://discord.gg/kXpKCgD
I'll be setting up an "official" pool with a 3% mining fee that will go towards outside development/bounties/exchange listings and what not. I think it's a much better option than taxing block rewards, even though it's been suggested in discord.
Those still running version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 are advised to update soon. Next version (1.0.4) and those who build from the current source won't be able to connect to you, or rather, you won't be able to connect to the majority of active nodes.
They have to upgrade their wallets if don't want to stay on wrong chains and got massively continous orphan blocked found.
Yes, that's the idea. There is still some time though. Just giving a notice so there is no surprise later on.
Those still running version 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 are advised to update soon. Next version (1.0.4) and those who build from the current source won't be able to connect to you, or rather, you won't be able to connect to the majority of active nodes.