Recap:
Two people to keep an eye on:  

'Rat'/'Dolittle': Original creator of BLK but really reclusive and non-communicative. Recently appeared after being gone for nearly a year.

janko33bd: Developer who's here since the start but did by far the most development work on BLK since the release. Constantly modernizing the coin and keeping it up with the latest features in crypto (all in the Lore build). Also responsible for the coloured coin for BLK system IRIS.  

Rat made a cryptic announcement about a Blacknet airdrop. No further details whatsoever. Yet at the same time it became clear that he wouldn't accept any updates on the regular BLK chain. We don't know why, and ultimately it doesn't matter, Janko is just able to continue working on BLK through Lore, the major exchanges already side with his build anyway.    

This means that for Rat to be able to do anything at all, he needs to get the community's consensus. He can release an airdrop on BLK or not, but it's not going to affect BLK itself unless he involves the rest.  

So that's where we're at now. You can play the 'time the airdrop' game if you want, people have gotten very rich of it in the past. But truth be told is that Rat is currently the only person who knows what it actually is, and exchanges absolutely don't accept unannounced snapshots which are fraudulent. In other words, although I very much would like to see people buying BLK in anticipation, there's also nothing wrong with holding back and wait for any actual confirmation that exchanges are on board with this, because as of now, they're not.  

The rest of the community just proceeds on their own term, which is quite exciting in and of itself as we're moving towards ETH-style smart contracts soon. The coloured coins are already operational, the scripts and release platform is up next.  

Hi guys and girls! Is there any fresh blackcoin bootstrap out there?
Update: just noticed that this is blacknet already (pre-ann?).
TLDR anyone?

Good we get solid confirmation, can we not have competition within the protocol and still proceed forward.   The wider world has far larger problems we must still overcome.  I can see chaos occurring with world reserve currency at some point, these calm waters now wont always be here and BLK must be ready to survive harder times right?
   We have more then one wallet to choose from and neither of them obstruct the others so I dont see a negative to that exactly.    Isnt there always going to be the idea of choosing direction with POS and we go with the best solution.  Capitalism is competitive and open at its heart and hopefully we all benefit from staying true to that.
This is better then a one man band right, having more then one Dev to Blackcoin's credit it seems more positive and constructive long term that way right.    My ironic take from this is activity means Rat4 is more active now, it is a positive development

Good we get solid confirmation, can we not have competition within the protocol and still proceed forward.   The wider world has far larger problems we must still overcome.  I can see chaos occurring with world reserve currency at some point, these calm waters now wont always be here and BLK must be ready to survive harder times right?
   We have more then one wallet to choose from and neither of them obstruct the others so I dont see a negative to that exactly.    Isnt there always going to be the idea of choosing direction with POS and we go with the best solution.  Capitalism is competitive and open at its heart and hopefully we all benefit from staying true to that.
This is better then a one man band right, having more then one Dev to Blackcoin's credit it seems more positive and constructive long term that way right.    My ironic take from this is activity means Rat4 is more active now, it is a positive development

Where can I buy Blacknet?

Am excited to see this community growing up
exhibiting first signs of becoming adult,
realizing you can choose a king to rule.

Lot's of things to do, lot's of opportunities for all
rat4 had a commit in Lore too, everyone is welcome.
feature HF, network monitoring, testnet, ios, csv..
coders, advertisers, writers, market makers,
doing this alone will not work.

much more communication is needed as it grows, not less


So choose node and stake

https://chainz.cryptoid.info/blk/#!network

network has 129 nodes with version 1.2.4
12 Lore nodes with version 2.1.12
9 nodes with version 1.2.5

Lore will notice if it's blocks are in majority and the path has been choosen..
It can even follow the next blackcoin blockchain, but with no info, no code,
no message.. it can't.

As for the QT anyone who builds the watchonly branch and manually adds watchonly addresses is indeed at a big risk since those accounts aren't meant to be spent. However the change you propose is not good because I use that branch for Halo. On the other hand users should build from the branch without watchonly.

If your DEX requires the QT wallet runs watchonly then perhaps a change needs to be made to the QT GUI to accommodate it.