I don't think the original intention was to tie it to gold so much (the gold thing on the OP looks gimmicky). I feel the name should be kept, it's a good name. We're in the midst of a crypto "GoldRush".
In terms of tasks, do you think you could get BCT to allow you to moderate this thread to update the first post?
I'll get round to setting up a node & block explorer shortly. The wallet should be recompiled and then work should begin on re doing the algo. (i'm not a programmer so can't help there sadly).
I know the original intention was to make it out to be like the gold rush. However, selling it as being in a gold rush still would be like selling bags of sand and saying people can pan the sand for gold. We're not in the gold rush and alt boom that we were years ago. So tying this project to that mentality seems a little off for me personally. So the other option is to try to tie it to actual precious metals, which was actually a selling point for this coin at one point with a PM merchant that was taking KDC.
Either way, I don't like the PM/gold rush brand for this. It's restricting, and it puts us in a place where we have to conform to a specific micro-niche. That may work for some coins, but doing that with a near-dead 4yo coin might put us right back where we are. Not to say it can't be done if that's what everyone wants to do, but I just don't see the benefit of shoehorning us into that mold.
I'd need to start a new thread. I doubt the mods would allow me to take over this one. I reached out to the original dev a few years back to see if he/she would turn over the login info for the accounts, but I never heard back.
-Fuse