and based on the recent turn of events, completely useless, everything was gone back on by Noble. For all purposes the pdf doesn't exists
We changed our mind, more myself than most, because of the current environment. The .PDF spoke about coin wars and survival, I didn't expect miners to give so much power to PoS multipools and we weren't expecting to have such little support in the scene as a whole.
PDF: We will be constantly working towards promoting and embracing merge-mining with other scrypt coins in the months to come. Not only will scrypt ASICs begin to secure scrypt coins, but we believe merge-mining for scrypt will begin to gain momentum. We want to promote this now, as the coins that welcome increased security, sustained hash rates and stability will be the ones taken seriously.
Myself and others still believe that so we're not going back on anything. Unfortunately we're a little ahead of our time, I don't think this will happen for more than a year. I promoted MM publicly on the DOGE reddit when LTC made the offer (it would have set a very good precedent), I thanked Lee for what he did. But the DOGE crew were not interested and too many people don't understand MM just like they don't understand PoS. We don't have time at this hash/price & in this environment to wait around for when MM security becomes more widely embraced and expected. In the meantime we were spending a lot of money on Knight & Nobility hashfarms trying to combat the multipools and 51%, but whoever is doing it can feel snide we don't currently have the resources to beat them.
PDF: That being said, anything that stands the test of time and is shown to revolutionize the security or power of alternative cryptocurrency we will definitely be taking very seriously.
Despite me being publicly resolute, we have discussed and explored PoS for months with others in IRC and privately with those more familiar. In this current environment PoS revolutionizes the power and security of NOBL, so we've taken it seriously.
So I've adapted/reconsidered my stance on MM/PoW versus PoS, as well as dealt with the communities primary concerns of ASICs/miners dumping & multipools, and still there is negativity. PoW/MM wasn't all that was in the .PDF nor was it meant to even be a key factor in what Noble was.