Since many people already know it, no need to keep it secret anymore - indeed, incoming 8BIT version will use PIVX codebase. However, it will be not pure clone, the goal is to use current chain with this code base, therefore many things need to be changed (ie hashing algo).
That sounds pretty good. If you're interested, I registered 16bit.party, all the way through to 256bit.party (that last one was because of issues with the registrar). If you want to use any of them just let me know, no charge.