Who cares ? We care 
This is good to hear ;-).
Sorry for sounding so negative before. I had been keeping my hopes up for AUR (and still do now) and had a temporary lapse of faith. I'm not talking about the value of my bag here (I decided long ago (and still stick to that decision) to go down holding that bag even if the ship sinks to the ground), and I hope that came across over time. My plan is to some day spend my AUR in Iceland. Either by buying a nice power plant or by buying a couple of beers, depending on where things go with Auroracoin.
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.
Thanks for keeping your Abe explorer up for all this time and providing airdrop statistics.
"important" is an overstatement, but I am happy to play a small part and it is fun.
I've been running explorer.auroracoin.eu, been helping to keep the market "stable", been mining (at a loss) when we had the pool hopping troubles before multi-algo, tried to help a tiny bit with the code when I found issues and I've also been telling people IRL about the Auroracoin experiment here in germany. I always promote AUR as a "buy" when people ask me what altcoin they should get ;-).
I would love to help adoption in Iceland somehow, but that's hard to do from outside the country.
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.
pleasantly surprised to find out that Auroracoin is still contending quite well, respectively speaking.
10-fold increase? How did you measure that and in what timeframe did that occur?
So keep those fingers crossed and keep an eye out for further developments.
:-)