Please consider joining everyone at www.vertcointalk.orgThis bitcointalk thread is great and will continue to serve a purpose, but we really need to expand growth to the Vertcoin forum. Whenever a potential miner, investor, retailer, journalist, etc hears about VTC, one of the first places they might hit after finding the VTC homepage, is the forum. Being able to easily review subtopics and posts, community involvement, enthusiasm, etc is VERY IMPORTANT from a PR and credibility standpoint, and this 240+ page continuous thread may not be the ideal venue for that. I have contacted the VTC website admin, so hopefully they will add the forum link to the homepage soon.
So please sign up and utilize the forum if you would like to keep this train moving forward! 
I have also contacted the Vertcoin.org website admin in hopes that they will soon add a "VTC in the News" graphic on the homepage.
I realize that a "VTC Marketing Team" announcement may be coming this week so hopefully this will be addressed soon.
These 2 recent VTC news items are perfect examples of things we should be at least providing links to:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/vertcoin-soaring-cryptocurrency-set-surpass-bitcoin-165058275.html#lIewb3mhttp://www.followthecoin.com/interview-creator-vertcoin/