ASERT proposal as new DAA Confirmed In November's BCH Upgrade

About a month ago, @jtoomim made an update proposing the use of ASERT as DAA in the upcoming upgrade, https://read.cash/@jtoomim/bch-upgrade-proposal-use-asert-as-the-new-daa-1d875696

He went further to stating some flaws about the current Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm (DAA) - cw-144

1. It increases average transaction confirmation times by a factor of about 2x if 90% of the hashrate behaves in a rational manner;

2. It causes the chain to stall completely if 100% of the hashrate behaves in a rational manner;

3. It allows for some really nasty selfish mining attacks. Selfish mining attacks cause block reorgs, and reduce public confidence in the block chain, and make double-spend attacks more feasible;

4. It punishes miners for being loyal to BCH;

5. It punishes small solo miners who do not have the technological sophistication to automate hashrate switching strategies; and

6. It allows for malicious strategies in which a miner can intentionally amplify the oscillations and pro-switching incentives, either by switching their hashrate themselves in a pumped fashion, or by manipulating the timestamps of the blocks they mine.

The confirmation to this proposal was made known recently, On August 6 by Amaury Séchet, stating the implementation of aserti3–2d (ASERT) algorithm in replacement of cw-144 on the Bitcoin ABC node. https://medium.com/bitcoin-abc/bitcoin-abcs-plan-for-the-november-2020-upgrade-65fb84c4348f

So, with the acceptance of this proposal and further implementing it on the November 12 upgrade, BCH tends to experience the list below quoted from @jtoomim

1. It would be stable, and not prone to oscillations;

2. It would keep confirmation times low;

3. It would keep incentives for miners to perform hashrate shenanigans low;

4. It would keep incentives for miners to perform timestamp manipulation shenanigans low;

5. It should keep incentives for miners to perform selfish mining shenanigans low;

6. Because of #3, #4, and #5, honest mining strategies with steady hashrate should get near-optimal income;

7. The chain would recover quickly after sudden changes in hashrate and/or exchange rate;

8. The average block interval would be kept close to the target (e.g. 600 seconds);

9. The algorithm would be mathematically simple and elegant;

10. The algorithm would be easily understood and analyzed;

11. The algorithm would be easy to implement elegantly and simply; and

12. The algorithm would have few or no edge and corner cases.