Here is the thing, Icelanders have really gotten hit by the 2008 crash. People lost homes and have seen mortgages go UP and principal down (in effect, because mortgages are tied to inflation) and have had some reality biting them in the ass.
But it wasnt their fault, it was the banking system and some bankers that let them down.
That is why there was a 50% pre-mine. To give the coins to Icelanders. Just because they didnt know about protecting block-chains, this was a poor excuse (if true) for a hacker to try to mess up a valid idea, a grand experiment, to try to offer some help to fellow Icelanders.
-MegaHertz
But it wasnt their fault, it was the banking system and some bankers that let them down.
That is why there was a 50% pre-mine. To give the coins to Icelanders. Just because they didnt know about protecting block-chains, this was a poor excuse (if true) for a hacker to try to mess up a valid idea, a grand experiment, to try to offer some help to fellow Icelanders.
-MegaHertz
So, instead of promoting bitcoin, the very first and strongest cryptocurrency that is intended to spread financial freedom around the world, someone is trying to push a utopian commie-coin 50% of which was pre-mined.
Instead of supporting international approach, they want to earn points with nationalism based currency. Good luck with that.
I really feel for those naive Icelanders who invested in this pseudo-national coin, that ended up as yet another pump and dump scheme.
It seems you do not like EU on one side and promote an "international" currency that is bitcoin. I can't find a link between communism and Aurora, I can just see free market forces working at its fullest - it's in the hands of the Icelanders to decide wether or not Auroracoin is a scam, pump and dump asset, a currency and what not. Most of the criticism that receives Aurora today remembers me of... bitcoin's early days.
If you follow closely AUR, you'll see that 20 stores already accept it over there, that a car has been sold for AUR and that the USD/AUR price is not the same as the one quoted in cryptsy or mintpal.
Let's wait and see what happens in the coming months, there may be some surprises..