No stand alone miner for your custom algo at launch?
No Bastion will be wallet mining only. Something people need to understand though, for mining each algo has it's own difficulty so if a huge farm moves in on x11 or scrypt it does not matter because the difficulty will make it hard to mine on THAT algo. Meanwhile, someone who downloads the wallet and mines in Bastion algo would find blocks easier as the difficulty is lower. Only when all algos have high diff will each be equal. If I have not explained that well please tell me
How many days will PoW phase last? 326 days?
This is correct, by then our final plans regarding maintaining network will be revealed 30 days in advance to that.