Already mining and in it for the long haul, just one question, any idea at what date POS kicks in? Too lazy to due the math to figure out when block 800,000 happens!
I've been wondering that myself. Since you asked this at a good time (it's just after midnight February 1 GMT) the timestamps at the block explorer can make this more precise. [Note that there's some wiggle-room because this was a new algo with no GPU mining at first... so the first few days might have had uneven/irregular mining] but the overall timeframe should be relatively close in the long-run.
The first block was minted Nov 15th just after 3 p.m (
https://explorer.polytimos.net/block/f39a93d1e65791eac85808a3c2061d1a93cbfc25a71d5052d2707005e31b1988 ) so there was 9 hours left in that day to mine.
There were 15 days in November after that, 31 in December, and 31 in January. Total days of mining have been therefore = 9/24 + 15 + 31 + 31 = ~77.375 days of mining POLY.
From the block explorer, block 35441 was mined at nearly midnight at the start of Feb 1st (
https://explorer.polytimos.net/block/89fd01996d385b3d763a9568af97f3d9b03bc0943d55b0242d49d9e55734f329 ) -- even though it shows up with a stated time of 19:00 Jan 31st in this particular window of the explorer for some reason.
So... dividing to get average number of blocks per day yields: 35441 / 77.375 = about 458 blocks have been mined per day on average.
Using that same block: 800,000 - 35441 = 764,559 blocks to go. At 458 blocks per day this means it would be ... [drum roll] ... 764,559 (blocks)/ 458 (blocks per day) = 1669 days or more than 4 and 1/2 years until the Proof-of-Stake. I got this far so... estimating this ... 2019 2020 2021 2022 is four years 1669 - 365 - 365 - 365 - 366 (one of those'll be a leap-year) = 208. Then 208 - 28 (Feb) - 31 (Mar) - 30 (Apr) - 31 (May) - 30 (Jun) - 31 (Jul) = 27.
So it looks like one might project the first proof-of-stake block to be minted around August 27th 2022.If people are holding out for the proof-of-stake as an income stream, I hope they're patient. Perhaps the proof-of-stake might be moved forward to an earlier date? A year is a long time in this space; more than four and half will seem an eternity and will take a commitment to the "long-haul" indeed.