I think maybe the autohodl period was too long. While autohodling did succeed in removing the strip miners and the pools(temporarily), it may have discouraged too many miners. Maybe a 60 days enforced hodling period would have been better.
Anyway, now that Yobit appears to have gone offline, I think now would be a good time to prepare a fork, as the potential problem with Yobit has already occurred.
I'll suggest an offer to HOdlers - I'll volunteer to develop the fork if the Nutocracy authorizes me to reduce the required autohodl period, but not remove it. I think removing the autohodl entirely would see the return of strip miners who simply mine and dump, removing all value created in the coin. While I know the autohodl feature has not been popular in many quarters, I think we'll find all those who have mined with autohodl are likely to be long term hodlers, more invested in the coin than strip miners or speculators.
It's a good idea but 60 days is a bit short - maybe 90 or 120 days would be better to hold off the strip miners.
I really like the 365 day autoHOdl but if it must be shortened I say shorten as little as possible to prevent botnet mining. Also, on a side note it seems there will only be 80 million coins released for mining. Question is how many of those have already been mined and how long will it take to mine the remaining balance? We must consider that also because if there is only a year or 2 left to mine these coins I say all the more reason to love the auto hodl and stop whining and get to mining LOL!
As of this writing, roughly 11,920,850 Hold coins (238417 blocks * 50 Hodl/block) were already mined. At its current mining rate, we're looking at 6 to 7 years left on mining. If we shortened the autohodling, interest might pickup and more miners will jump in.