The project surely is dead.
I never followed the whole chaos but from what i can tell, OP might have been shilling minexcoin even after it was discovered that it was scam, and JollyGood usually tags shill profiles (it's sad that the reference has a wrong link). minexcoin have an ANN thread that is self-moderated with 167 posts by 29 users with 2 merit deleted. That paints a clear picture and shows clear intentions of the minexcoin scam right from the time it was announced