If you had any kind of investment in ixcoin your opinion might hold some value.
Judging by your relentless trolling and general disdain toward ixcoin, smoothie you are being completely asinine.

You are correct, I do not have any investment in ixcoin give the CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

I am wanting to see how reasonable Thomas is willing to be to offer a fair network start without premined coins and ZERO advantages or changes that hold ANY value to be considered WORTH anything.

I would be crazy to want to invest anything for a long period of time into a network which adds NO value to the original bitcoin client.

At the current block rate the next difficulty adjustment will occur in 14 days. So those of you who are still mining ixcoins will be mining at a loss for at least the next 14 days as the network speed holds steady at a low rate.

How am I being unreasonable to ask the tough questions like why premien 580k coins which have ZERO value and hold less than half of them up for bounties in which work that has value by the community should be exchanged for these things which have no value?

If ixcoins offered anything but a power grab and early adopter opportunity to the very few that got in (mostly Thomas) I might consider speaking for it as opposed to against it.

Ultimately the life span of this network is determined by people like me who reside in the community who are watching what goes on. If none of us choose to invest and speak against it the project is doomed to fail given it offers nothing of potential value over the original bitcoin client.

EDIT: One last thing. You thought I was trolling? Just look at all the postings that your "moderator" Oldminer made on the bitcoin forums about i0coin. So you're going to tell me that my trolling in response to his trolling is bad yet because he moderates this forum I am the only one that should change his outlook and attitude? How about you make appropriate comments about Oldminer too concerning his trolling? Or does that make ixcoins look bad?

And if you did not notice my trolling was directed at Oldminer and his inability to explain why ixcoin has ANY value.

After going through what you have posted to and about Oldminer as well as ixcoin, here on this forum, the bitcointalk forum and the i0coin forum. I don't honestly think anyone is capable of changing your stance in this matter. It is in my opinion there is no resolve for you or anyone else who holds similar views as you about ixcoin or even bitcoin. ixcoin does have the benefit of a shield against newcomers who are skeptical of bitcoin. Skepticism is a never-ending barrage of questions, and to entertain you with any actual answer to your requests would certainly mean to welcome more skepticism in an area where personal research into matters is necessary. I'm sorry I can't give you an answer.

How does ixcoin shield against nercomers who are skeptical of bitcoin?

How would someone be skeptical of bitcoin but not a copycat currency like ixcoin?

How is that a benefit?

I have still yet to hear any portion of the "development" of ixcoin which would add any value to its release as a new currency. This sheild you talk about I'm still confused about.

What FEATURES were added that give ixcoin more functionality/security/operability over bitcoin to give it value?

Funny how you say there is no answer you could give to convince me. That basically sums up what ixcoin is a worthless copycat version of bitcoin which adds nothing of value to the original client.

If someone can answer the question of value ixcoins add I will likely be more apt to change my views.

But in addition that still does not remove the GLARING fact that Thomas has premined 580k coins (~ 1/3 of the total mined) and has offered less than half of them up for bounties in exchange for people's time and effort (which have value) for ixcoins which still presents no new value over the original.

I sure hope you have not invested much into ixcoins because if these GLARING questions are not answered here soon, this network and currency are doomed to fail very shortly.