So someone is mining 11.850 SMC/Day on the new fork?! That is insane. And if we choose the old fork due to all this trouble, then all his mined coins will be gone too right?

I personally vote for the fastest solution, whatever it is. The reward for each solved block is not the problem atm. Smartcoin got a shitty reputation, and a split community. Poor advertisement, and no dev right now. That is what we should be concerned about. When the faith in Smartcoin is restored, then we can try messing with the code. Right now we should just look for the fastest way possible to make this coin usable again. One way or the other.