Why would you wait?
If DOGE does have a problem, and gets the 51% some mean people want to do to the poor DOGE - then no pool is going to merge mine.
If DOGE merges with Litecoin now, it saves you from the terrible halvenings problem. Basically DOGE overpaid the miners, no one will mine and no tips will be processed.
If you are merged with Litecoin now, Litecoin protects DOGE tipping forever.
Litecoin has nothing to worry about - Charles Lee - Coinbase, Warren Togami - created Fedora, Bobby Lee - on the Bitcoin Board of Directors and CEO of BTCChina.
Litecoin is assured - why would DOGE say no to this
And now you want to tie yourself to some crap scam like Tacocoin??? You could instead tie yourself to the #2 coin in market cap in the world. This makes no sense.
Completely valid points!
I do not speak for the community or devs and only have my personal opinions.
Here IS a quote from one of the devs at the time:
Merged mining with Litecoin (and thanks to Charlie Lee for the invitation, of course) would likely help us mitigate 51% attack risks, by merging our mining power together, however it would introduce what have so far been considered undue issues for our mining community. Specifically, merged mining would require significant changes to mining infrastructure, adopting either p2pool or a mining proxy. Many have raised concerns that LTC miners would simply dump DOGE; personally I believe we could have an LTC/DOGE swap doing in the p2pool layer to give each miner whichever coin they prefer, to mitigate this, so this is not a risk I consider a major issue. There are also concerns that we would always be the secondary coin to LTC; personally I’d have considered a pre-defined block at which we de-merge a requirement, but again this isn’t a route we’re taking, I am just going through the evaluation I have done for reference.I am sure their opinions change daily with the state of the coin, so there is no point holding them to their opinions at the time.
Personally, there are pros and cons to merge mining, and ideally I would love to see Dogecoin make it on it's own, as that would mean hashrate/price would be at a good place. The halving schedule really forces Dogecoin's hand and I think a decision will need to be made at some point.