@cryptochannel & @acidyo Welcome back to the world!
Since you mentioned investing in blockchain startups, I thought you might be interested in reading this...
https://steemit.com/basicincome/@williambanks/introduction-to-viva-part-4-how-do-you-bootstrap-a-new-economy

It's relevant to your mining because the Crown's do use Equihash for their discovery algorithm and the mints use it for PoW, during sync ordering operations on the blockchain.
Upvoted and followed. BTW @williambanks is running this particular account for now.