@midnight_miner
it's not the results i'd like to see. but i still flag it as a 'fair' general market prediction.
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1. i've seen the future! and it is still primarily driven by FAITH in the BTC and LTC chains. Note* there are various ways to attach ALT chains to either the B or L chains.
2. everything else is a tough sell for the long road of endurance, so we see 'master' and 'federated' servers type of chains with top of the list market caps.
3. Auxpow, Multi-algo, hybrid-POW/POS, and layering ... plus B/L can still have mixers for ANON fx.
4. POS split off long ago, went solo 2014, still no 51% attack ... TALK is in that camp
5. It is about creating decentralized industries, the ASICs are at industrial level, and the POS too, ... every heard of AWS or Digital Ocean, servers are a commodity, and POS consumes that (hdd/cpu/mem) rather than ASIC-tech-chips and lowest-electricity-cost-production-location.
I think there is more room for development in #3 to find the right mix. There will be new tech or thinking to keep hybrid-POW/POS going for another 10 years. The mix of both PoW and PoS has proven to work well in the wild. I think they are the most stable of coins.
I am working on the home version of #5. Just need less drinking and more tinkering time...