Agree really nice on new miner and giving competition to Bitmain and their miners. As long as new companies can compete on TH/$ they should be winners.
People just like that there are no premine. Like it has to be all Open Source for Linux people. I would agree that dev should get hios pay some how. Either by small premine or minning some blocks with his PC before coin is made public.
Difficulty from 2016 July to Dec. Went up from Close to 200 to just below 300. Nowfrom December it has went up from just below 300 (let's say 290) to 422 and after 8 days it will 450 or so. 2 new Batches of S9 which will start minning in March. And diff will alredy be in high 500's maybe even 600. If BTC price don't follow diff, you be in losses in autumn and contract will be terminated.