I found out Axis is based on quite old bitcoin source. To update all the libraries and all bitcoin source changes is possible, but also quite a job.

Another approach would be to take the latest bitcoin source and implement the Axis blockchain into there. This will take a bit more time, but Axiscoin will get lots of bugfixes and new features for free.

I feel a bit more for the second approach myself. Any opinions?

(by the way I have no plans at all for forking the blockchain yet)

axis:
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btc:
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