Hi Kalus, unless I am mistaken, when I saw you talk of "market manipulation" I understood this as you making a moral condemnation - you calling it wrong. I explained why my proposed solution to an identified problem does not deserve moral denunciation - and if anything - it is people who choose to be included in the difficulty estimate who then skip out after being included in the estimate - who are doing something that could be argued as morally wrong
you're made a separate argument claiming "costs and pains". that's spurious, and pulls at emotional heartstrings.
There is no obligation, moral or otherwise, to keep your mining equipment on when you're done mining.
It is the speculator's fault for intentionally hyping the currency without a way to conduct day-to-day transactions. when the coin was announced and the difficulty shot up in the first 96 hours, we didn't even have fucking wallets for windows, linux, and osx. even though it wasn't listed on a single exchange, everyone was already hoarding their coins, trading their coins, and trying to intentionally drive up the price on no actual, real world value. nothing but speculation.
that speculation has dried up. miners followed in on the hype, and now they're gone. this is the result of SPECULATORS. don't blame the miners for producing bona fide coins.
if you get-rich-quick-schemers hadn't bought into your own hype, this valuation would have built up over time. however, a week into it, you're trying to make miners create false value in catcoin by obligating them to stay around. sorry, these rigs cost money to run. and you're not making me any money.
I've never heard of hash rate being leveraged in this way. simply ridiculous how you scapegoat mining, yet benefit directly off the labour. it's like people that hire landscapers from the home depot parking lot becuase they can't be bothered to get their hands dirty in their own backyard.
The blockchain's purpose for existing to secure financial transactions, not to create exciting rides for people to pump and dump. Maybe Bitcoins and Litecoins have good market capitalization in part because there isn't any "exciting" and destructive difficulty harmonics going on.
don't personify the blockchain. it is there to facilitate the integrity of transactions with the currency, not just the transactions you personally, morally approve of.