We know he is working on it because he talks with everyone daily on irc and gives updates. In addition, he always finishes his projects. He has a history of always finishing his projects. Simple as that. He doesn't need to send you copies of what he is doing to prove he is working on it. Devs don't send out copies to random people to peruse and evaluate. He is still working on it. Be patient and you'll like what they release.
Are there any (public) archives of cryptcoin channel on IRC?
Yes, try to search on here:
http://www.google.comI've already done that. Google doesn't find any relevant archive. This channel is also not archived on services like
www.irclog.org for unknown reasons.
What's the official name of the channel? #cryptcoin or something else?
EDIT: irclog.org service seems dead (it is not updating archives anymore). It seems that other similar services (irseek.com) are also dead. IRC is such great technology.
There is a link on page 1 of this thread. Go to page one and click it. Enter a name and you'll be logged onto the cryptcoin irc channel.
This is probably just IRC client which doesn't show any history. I can't use it to see what MindFox said in the past. And it doesn't work in my case because the server probably blocks lots of IP addresses (all tor exit nodes for example), anyway.
Because there is no archive, publishing "updates" on IRC is not the best idea IMHO. It seems that these "IRC updates" cannot prevent price from falling. The devs (or even better - their sponsors) need to post regular updates on this thread. And updates need to satisfy technically inclined readers. If you say that you have "one issue to solve" is clearly not enough. Project managers hear such excuses all the time from their software engineers which actually didn't do any serious work on the project.