Let's face it. You guys abandoned the project.
Took me a while to admit to myself but I came to the same conclusion. Unfortunately I cannot see what upsides AUR would have towards other coins like say BCH, DASH, ETH, XMR in the context of Iceland, neither for the potential people using those nor for the Cryptocurrency Foundation: I don't think many Icelanders claimed their AUR (I asume the claims were fraudulent to a large percentage) and if they did they turned around quickly and sold them. Another upside could be AUR being the sole coin traded on isx exchange, but I'm guessing this will change pretty soon?
For me the Auroracoin Project was an experiment to see if an airdrop to a geographically isolated population based on "one head one coin" could work to popularize the coin and get people to use it as money.
AUR was the most promising experiment in this direction as far as I know and I'm quite sad to see it finally fail. Some valuable lessons were learned.
It's been a fun, entertaining and educating ride and I thank everyone involved in the project, especially the people in Iceland doing real work. Thank you.
There's still some possibility the coin will survive in some meaningful way, but hope is getting thin... I can see how a shift of focus makes sense. The use of AUR funds given from premine may be questinable, but in the end: who cares...
Who cares ? We care
Well, no one can say that you have not played an important role in the project.
Thanks for keeping your Abe explorer up for all this time and providing airdrop statistics.
I think the thing is that many people have come to the conclusion that mass airdrops,
in general, only lead to quick sell offs.... At this point though the debate is moot for Auroracoin.
However, Auroracoin has not failed... we are still working, growing and yes, pivoting (vertically) from our lessons.
New merchants are still being added and new relationships are being forged. Again, on the scale of a tiny north atlantic nation.
I can say with 100% certainty that this idea to found the Icelandic Blockchain Foundation
has been phenomenal in regards to Auroracoin legitimacy. There is no longer a sense of "hidden agendas" due to the objective nature of the group.
We have seen a tenfold increase in local interest, and generally people have been
pleasantly surprised to find out that Auroracoin is still contending quite well, respectively speaking.
So keep those fingers crossed and keep an eye out for further developments.