I chatted with Carsen - he admits to moving on and has agreed to hand over the thread to me and work with us to fix the coin.  I am now the operator of the techcoinproject user so I'll be updating the OP finally.  I have not paid anything or received anything, this is purely for the good of the coin and our collective investments in it, especially those of us who bought in for the long term gains and WANT to stake.  I think IF everyone updates to the latest wallet we might be able to avoid another hard fork and PoW...  let's get rolling!