TEAM!!
Please, try to have a detailed conversation with bittrex and other exchanges, maybe on IRC channel or smth. IT worth trying. We need to explain them this situation - dev left this coin a while ago, like 2 month or smth, 1 month ago he have posted smth about - communty blamed him in stealing. Now, when you have found out that "dev fund" and wanted to fork without it, he have written smth to exchanges like "i'm here, don't support fork". Everyone knows it's bullshit, so please... Everything is in thread, his post history, you've already made some good analysis, djim and Talkteam(with links, details and shit). It's clear as day to everyone who have at least half of brain. Don't give it up, just fucking have a close talk to exchanges, maybe Richie
sorry mate, we tried our very best to explain all our concerns and that our main reason is because we want to take Talkcoin forward and develop it which hasn't been happening as you now. I don't blame the exchanges because the dev came back and from their point of view we are asking them to change to a new repo and they say they have a policy to support the original devs if they are active which unfortunately ours is despite this being the official thread since near the start. We had lots of communication and they were open and nice with us about this but its a no go and we dont want to mess up the last chance for Talkcoin by forking the network tomorrow.