The real merit of this coin lies in the anonymity enhancing features of the protocol and the robust decentralization implied by CPU-mining. Without those, it is just another pump and dump. If they can be improved and made more robust, the coin may have a bright future. I worry about the BMO fork, however. Quazarcoin and bytecoin are transparent scams, and will die naturally, but BMR vs MRO is a serious problem for image and marketing.
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Valid point. We should take care about BMR resurrection and reach agreement or cooperation with thankful_for_today.
This is actually as confusing to us as you. At one point, thankful_for_today said he was okay with name change:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563821.msg6368600#msg6368600Then he disappeared for more than a week after the merge mining vote failed. Two days ago he PM'd us saying he regretted not listening to the community more and about working together. We proposed setting up a sourceforge for MRO to have a mailing list, which thankful_for_today said he would. Then all of a sudden there was a PM followed by the same posted on here implying the old name was still in effect. And I don't know what else that entails.
That's pretty much it. There's no other behind-the-scenes discussion between him and us. thankful_for_today is often gone and acts a bit strange sometimes, but he's not malicious at all. So I think this will sort itself out fine. Ideally, he'll stay as a dev and contribute to the github (anyone can do that by the way -- this project is now completely decentralized).
Everything will work out. Monero is doing so good. Those that helped bring it about will come together and make it even better.