Don't even think about PoS Un. Seriously, that's bullshit--the point of Un when I released it was to NOT be Stake. Live with it for what it is, make it merge-mineable but too bad to those who missed the boat and want longer halving/more coins/etc.
+1. There's so many POS coins now. If want pos, there is a coin du jour that is offering it. Doge introduced unlimited coins. Now we have unlimited coins on top of unlimited coins with POS. It's interesting to discuss it, and I understand the concern around mining profitability. Merge mining might provide the answer to that. An interesting idea was put forward to work with other 3min sha coins to merge mine. That seems worth exploring further.
My hope is that UNO's price will eventually realize it's much-higher fair worth long before the 250k limit is reached, and that fees will provide the incentive to mine. I think this has always been the one of the most interesting questions of the UNO experiment -- what happens when it's max number of coins is reached?
Blazr2, could you tell us more about when UNO is expected to reach 250k coins? I don't have the hard facts, but I recall reading something -- I think on unobtanium.io which has now gone down -- that said UNO would reach 250k coins long after Btc had reached its max. I hate to ask you to repeat yourself, but could you tell us more about how UN will mine out, and when that might occur?
I think in a worst case scenario, where price falls low and mining incentive evaporates, a digishield/kgw implementation could keep UNO humming along on low hash power. Although strong hashing is proof of interest in a coin, it really doesn't require much hash power to continue moving the network, should mining incentives fail. Difficulty is a symptom of interest in a coin. I vow right now to always keep a minimum of 6ghs on UNO until I die.
Seriously, I've been keeping a shitcoin alive called Swansoncoin; finally reduced it to 120 khs. I'm about to pull the plug on RON (because I don't have a commitment to it the way I do UNO), but digishield easily adjusts the difficulty when other miners join in. The network moves along just fine whether there is 100 khs or 100 ghs.
My belief is that the price of UNO will eventually rise meet its higher worth, and that mining interest will continue for a long time. But if I'm wrong, my little Jalapeno miner (35w) is ready to take over.