It seems Auroracoin was the first 'shitcoin and scamcoin' to hit the news? Every crypto has trolls saying it will never amount to anything, maybe they are all doomed to fail? How are people that don't spend time on this board supposed to know the difference?
It isn't clear what's happened to Auroracoin, maybe Balduro has given up, maybe he has some tricks up his sleeve, maybe someone put a gun to his head, I'm pretty sure you don't know either
His experiment failed...pretty spectacularly. It has achieved no adoption whatsoever. I don't know about you, but I think that'd remove all of my motivation to work on it.