I keep hearing it's dead, and it might be. But the mining reward has recently changed, along with new wallet software.

Seems they are doing a lot of work on the back-end as well.  Why would you quietly be working on a project... if it were completely dead.

If they were just setting up a scam.. I would expect a whole lot of hype, and posts.. a few videos.. some pictures.. more rumors of sites offering 1 gram per coin .. or at least a BJ.





As far as sync goes, for a new wallet.. it sucks

I am sharing my blocks folder via a torrent:

https://youtu.be/s2Ee0coxhNc  (in the video description)

let me know if you have problems downloading.

Remember, never trust anything from the internet, specially something from a Torrent from some strange guy on the internet.

But I am uploading it anyways.