The grueling test is only beginning though.
Now that it is listed on an exchange, dumpmining begins in earnest. People who have no interest in holding, only paying for their miner and keeping the profits.
About how long before PoW ends? And if we maintain the current PoW/PoS mixing rate, about how many coins will there really be in the market?
My calculation based on day to day change currently looks like this
PoW period with 100GB reward from blocks 10.001 - 50.000 will last approx. ~14 days (~9 days left) days and after that total coin supply will be ~6.8 Mil GB
PoW period with 50GB reward from blocks 50.001 - 100.000 will last approx. ~18 days and total coins supply will be ~8.1 Mil GB
PoW period with 20GB reward from blocks 100.001 - 500.000 will last approx. ~140 days after wich total coins will be ~ 13.1 Mil GB
PoW period with 5GB reward from blocks 500.001 - 1.000.000 will last approx. ~180 days after wich total coins will be ~ 15.4 Mil GB