There was this response by one of the devs: http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1vh94e/dagger_updates/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1vh94e/d

There was this response by one of the devs: http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1vh94e/dagger_updates/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1vh94e/dagger_upda... They seem to be moving away from Dagger: "We will switch our PoW from Dagger to a hybrid PoW/PoS system to be developed via a bountied competition conducted by our university partners and open to the general community for participation." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0;all https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0;all Whether this instills confidence that they are agile and not ideologues or shows inexperience is your call.