Why would the markets accept that?

Crypto distribution is absurdly bad (most, even big ones like LTC, have ~50% of coins held in the top 100 wallets).

Don't underestimate "instamining" stigma - it annihilated Quark and continues to plague DRK. A currency (exchange medium) is no good if many people don't want anything to do with it.

Has there been anything new about this coin? Has it been put on hold or is it still schedule for release. Also a name?

I'm not against full pos given out to people, however just need to give it out to more than 11 people. Can't be that hard to get some method of distribution that does way better than that.

Sent a payment of .4

Not by far. Cache area is usually close in size to Core area.

There is no "most expensive part of the CPU". Cost is dominated by die size and fault rate.
It's true that 37.5MB takes a lot of die space, so that certainly contributes to cost.

If the hash rate is such, or the difficulty is such, or whatever, where the expected time to block becomes 4 days, 5 days, longer... doesn't that equate to "wasted" work mining because there are days gone by without being counted?

The thing is, while variance may average out over the long term, that only matters if difficulty remains the same.  If you think that I'm wrong, let me offer you a scenario. Hypothetically, let's say that based on current pool hashrate and network difficulty, we can expect one block per day. I'll offer you a choice. You can get three months of double the expected block success (two blocks per day initially), followed by three months of zero payouts. OR, you can get three months of zero payouts, followed by three months of double the expected success rate.  

The naive answer is that both will average out to the same thing - and that answer is correct so long as the pool maintains the same hashrate and block difficulty throughout the six months. In reality, even if we hold the pool hashrate constant over six months, your total payouts with the two options will be radically different due to the increasing difficulty rate. The double payouts followed by a dry spell will earn much more than a dry spell followed by double payouts, simply because you're getting paid when difficulty is lower - thus more blocks are found during a given time period.

if he has LTC to offer as collateral why would he need a loan?

I was planning on putting the new Antminer I'm getting soon on p2pool and the 60 somewhere else.  Do you think I should divide them up differently?   

Just as an aside,  you guys may be surprised to hear this, but I was fired from my job of 10 years at a hospital last summer and I live on Bitcoin only.   I am not looking just to make a bunch of money, I am simply looking to survive.  I am done (hopefully) with working for "the man."  I'm willing to listen, learn and do what is best for p2pool - not my profits.  I just want a steady income ($1736/mo) to live on!  That honestly folks is all I want!  And some weeks it gets scary because my little payments don't amount to much.  My problem is, and the people like me out there who are mining, we end up switching back to Slush for the dependable $25-$35 payouts from say 300-500 GH/s, because I receive them fairly rapidly.   I do this out of necessity.  Anyone know of a place where I'd be better of parking my miners for a stable $1700/mo?  I'm not sure, that's why I'm on here learning & talking.  I'm in this for the long haul, my name is Marlon, so if any other serious miners out there wanna talk, I'm here!  I have one running p2pool node now and another node on a Win8 computer in the other room.  I've got 2 more miners on the way but my power bill is now about $175-$250/mo, whereas before it was rarely over $150.   So i'm paying a bit more in power, but it is manageable even with no job!  I make enough to cover the bills, but yeah I guess we are all trying mining out for different reasons.  I am not overtly suspicious of others, I just don't trust the NSA or government because they obviously hate democracy & don't care about us.  I just wanna make enough to live on here (not extra profits unless it's just a nice bonus).  So I'm here, if anyone comes up with ideas, I can implement them on my end, maybe we can do something to change some things about this situation.  Maybe we won't be able to, but I'm gonna try!! 

The simple fact is that most miners are a combination of lazy, fickle, uninformed and just all round suspicious and seem to be unable to understand payout schemes, variance and luck no matter how much it's explained to them, and their care factor for things like security of the network, distributing the hashrate etc. etc. just isn't high enough to offset the fact that the primary thing they care about is profits. Then they do pseudo experiments ignoring all the things I said above and show a better payout at some random other pool for that day and they're lost for good.

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How would you do it? I gave one option, which distributes to 500+ people and could be launched in just a day or three. It's not fair - nothing is - but it wouldn't be dominated by whales who could dump and destroy your wealth at any time they like.

As of now, 4/17... 12.5% increase. 

Wow... Is everyone jumping ship?  Hash rate is down to about 110TH/s...