I don't want a coin that's get hopped by large botnets and people with access to server farms , that's a big no for me.
A coin with high memory requirements and low initial rewards
(ideally, max reward should not appear until several weeks or even months of mining)
makes for an unattractive botnet-target.
Botnet owners don't mind slowing computers down somewhat (people are used to that),
but the last thing they want to do is force people to take action once their computer
starts swapping excessively and becomes totally unusable.
People are looking at the CPU problem backwards...
How to thwart botnets/cloud... the people you want to cut out.
Instead, look at the people you want to stay = Mr. Middle Class Miner...
The dedicated hobbyist who will tinker with mining software and build GPU rigs...
That is a VERY HIGH degree of commitment to a hobby.
This is 2014, there are smart cards, biometrics, a million security devices, etc, etc...
Your Middle Class Miner will accept and ONE CAN IMPOSE reasonable costs and inconvenience...
And for the privilege mining alts under fair rules created by the requirement for some human actions.
But no, everyone is brainwashed into the Bitcoin Mindset... into 2009 technology and thinking.
So soon... 3rd Gen startups like bitcloud, etc are gonna totally leapfrog this space...
Bitcloud has 1,300 reddit subscribers and a fucking decentralized node DB (blockchains are so 2009)...
Make your money while this very strange era lasts for a few short years.