Many of the views and beliefs presented in this thread are based on some old and indeed wrong information.

Auroracoin is now a serious real-life adoption project coordinated by the Icelandic Auroracoin Foundation:
http://aurarad.is/

Please refer to the Auroracoin Foundation thread on BCT.
It is useful to start reading from here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1467050.msg16687336#msg16687336