I completely agree with alphi. Its a new trend you can observe now. New coin's price shoots up, of course it is unsutainable because of giant inflation, and major holders cry to change the rules and cut money supply (CRYPT will be the next candidate). They made a mistake, bought on hype and current - not future - supply and now want to make others pay for their mistake (namely those who sold, knowing that current prices are unsustainable). Thats even worse with coins that have only a POW phase of like 4 weeks anyway. Comes pretty close to a scam often enough, especially with premines that suddenly rise from 1% to 3%. Older coins face the inflation problem, simply because the altcoinmarket is not growing fast enough to support all upcoming new coins plus those that are still existing. Thats ok though, some (most) coins probably have to die sooner or later.
EMC2' inflation is not massive (at least not at crypto-terms). If I made no mistake, it is 0,25% daily, and falling. That is 0.4BTC of daily buys at current prices. If EMC2 cannot attract more than 0.4BTC daily, the coin is dead anyway. With POS it would only die a slower death.
On the other hand, most people thought inflation is not that much of a problem, because a significant proportion of those who are mining were suposed to become new holders. And all holders should have the same goal - to increase the market cap. I dont know if that ever really was the case, but multipools certainly changed that. They are just dumping every mined coin right away. While I first liked the idea of multipools, this is not going to lead cryptoworld anywhere.
I am a bit undecided right now. EMC2 is old enough that a change to POS (= cut in supply) would no look as bad as with new coins. After all crypto world has changed alot in the last 3 months. And while the fundamentals might have been good 3 months ago, they might not be anymore. But what will be in 3 months from now on, are we going to change the fundamentals again? Doesnt feel like the right thing to do.
I think POS Multipool is a good change... I am not for changing the coin around and around but this is a necessary change and will give people incentive too hold coins
.... Mutlipool isn`t a bad idea cause lots of miners still want emc2 without killing the price..