Hi Ya JohnnyBTCSeed!

It's been awhile, so just wanted to say hello, been asking myself that question too, as my answer tends to go to the details, it can be rather long winded.  When my connection to BCT crapped out last night, you fortunately now don't have to read it. 

The short of it is this, there are aspects of what the Bitcoin guys are doing that we simply don't care about, at least for now, other things related to good security practices would be good to add.  Once we get the issues being discussed fixed, I think what Cinnamon mentioned a few pages back about Transaction Fees will be our focus.  Also as the merged mining component is so critical and unique to Ixcoin's place in the cryptocoin sphere, I intend on documenting it & cleaning up the code we use.  First though, we need to get it working.

Also...Recently it came to my attention, how wonderful finding and creating a very large block, one with lots of transaction fees in it, can be to a miner.  I will try to get him to do a write up on that experience, titled something like: The joys of mining transaction fees...

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