Seems this happened at a lot of other pools, algo aside. Ahashpool and zpool both went down on the number of miners last night. Not sure what happened but, it's going back up.

As for IRD, people are pushing for an exchange because some probably have 1000s of them. Dump and run. Happens all the time. A coin will only be worth what others are willing to pay for it. Without having this coin stand out from the others, people won't pay any more for it than the rest. 

Development of IRD- I've been working on a Tor backed node, but had some complications with configuring the exit node. I'll get it completed soon, though. I'm also going to work on the whitepaper and if I have time, I'll create a twitter page.

The problem here is not lack of devotion or motivation, it's a lack of time and a lack of people willing to do anything to help this coin except mining it and dumping it.