Anyway, maybe i0coin needs to release a great huge awesome new release on sept 1st!
Why? Well dunno...
Solidcoin planned to release his new release on this day, and our beloved nasakioto thought that if he released his own shitty new version on the same day it will bring some glory to it
So... As I0coin is a ixcoin fork, why not?
I'm going to see if I can integrate the merged mining patch from namecoin into iocoin.. but that won't be till later this weekend, and it's have to be scheduled (and frankly voted on by the miners since it will require upgrades and a choice of a future block to go live)..
merged mining is the only thing that will save the alt chains... IE, imagine if you could mine iocoin, namecoin, and bitcoin all simultaneously with the same hash strength.
As for the block#, I think it's not critical to chose now, we can vote after we are sure it works in testnet