Lol, that's what I was saying a while back about piles of merge miners not having enough IXC in their accounts, at the current price to warrant then taking the time to download a wallet and transfer from their pool. If the value goes to $10+, then I think some of them will start taking notice and taking the time to harvest their IXC coins. Until that time, you will need to find other interesting ways to get them to move those frozen coins around.
the merge mining does mine the coin for every user, but if the user doesn't specify a wallet address for ixcoin, it gets donated to the pool, so the coins are in fact being mined, but not necessarily being harvested by the miners.
The coin is dilluted to hundreds to even thousands of miners over 2 1/2 years.
Only takes the guts of a speculator to start driving these prices up so they take notice.