Cool little article, should be interesting to see where all the ICO's go, you're probably right and they'll go with Vitalik caus of his influence.
Thanks! It will indeed be interesting.
I had another after thought:
I worry about what the move to PoS/Casper will do to the profitability of GPU mining. When the GPU miners that are mining Ethereum switch over to other chains, the difficulty for other chains will skyrocket. Expect profitability of GPU mining to go way down for at least several months after ETH switches over to Casper.
Some will give up on mining and sell their hardware because it will not be worth the time and energy, then profitability will eventually return to normal levels. If you eat the losses or break even for those months and wait can out the storm, it could prove much more lucrative than liquidating your hardware. Similar situations have occurred when $BTC and $LTC switched from GPU mining to ASIC mining, yet GPU mining is profitable today.
Things could get even uglier for GPU miners though if an overall $crypto bear market settles in around the same time $ETH switches over to Casper.
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