face it, this project is at a total standstill.
Original dev vanished, PR manager has been silent as well.
There MAY have been interest from an outside dev, but with no (public) response from the PR manager, interest died.
Community takeover was mentioned, but again, without ANY word from someone on the original team, interest died.
Would probably be best to stick the proverbial fork in this coin and call it a day.
IF there is interest and support for the AxiomMemHash algo from the community, make a new coin instead of trying to beat this dead horse back to life.
The entire premise of this coin was to be GPU resistant. From the ANN: "Acknowledging the private GPU miner problem". It failed at it's core purpose. Within days there were private GPU miners. There is not a private GPU miner problem. That problem has been solved by using algorithms that have public GPU miners available. This coin that was supposedly intended to solve the "private GPU" problem actually created it's own "private GPU" issue by not releasing a public GPU miner. I find it odd that they could come up with this algo but not a GPU miner when many others were able to develop a GPU miner. It doesn't add up. That's why I believe the coin was launched with a private GPU miner from the beginning.
If all this coin has is an algorithm that failed to accomplish it's core purpose then it's failed. What are the benefits of using the AxiomMemHash algorithm? There still isn't a publicly released GPU miner.
I agree with your comments. What I don't understand is why no one who already owns a GPU miner hasn't just released it. Seeing as how the GPU advantage is no greater than those for Monero, releasing it may keep up interest in Axiom the way it stands at least until some rework can be done.
This CPU/GPU isssue was very common in many early still successful algos. As far as the/any advantage to preferring using AxiomMemHash to another is likely yet to be seen if/when the mining and staking particulars are ironed out. IMHO the absence of public GPU release is due to the fact that another round of higher rewards is still upcoming, and there may be dev support whether the original or a prospective replacement team, that are waiting take advantage of this round prior to implementing updates/fixes that would then rally support....a tactical move if you will.