Sure.

• First of all is that we have formed a new dev group that will be making its official takeover and announcement soon.
• We have established the Icelandic Auroracoin foundation.
• The first auroracoin / isk exchange in Iceland will be ready very soon.
• The dev group has been working hard on updating the core but more details on that and a roadmap will be presented in the official announcement.
• An official Auroracoin foundation website will be launched in the next days.
• We are also preparing a new official coin site.

This is just small part of the work that is being done and more people are joining in on the work every day. I could go on and on here about details but I think it's best to let the work speak for itself. There is also a lot of good information and discussion on auroraspjall.is, you should check it out.

Actually coinmarketcap doesn't even calculate the correct supply of Auroracoin. They base they base the market cap on 2.5 million total supply while the actual supply is closer to 6.5 million.

The foundation papers have been submitted and I have gotten a verification that they are being processed.

Wow! this could be bct's slogan "No community here, just people waiting for somebody to do all the work for them".

Molecular is correct on this. Mined coins are closer to 1.5 million.

Total amount of coins will be 21 million. 10.5 million coins were premined and about 50% of those are now in circulation. I estimate that mined coins till now are roughly 2.5 million so about 7.5-8 million are in circulation. The rest of the premine is currently held by Balduro and we are expecting him to destroy the rest of the coins in the next days. These are rough estimates but I'll be working soon towards getting a more accurate number.

These were the original premine addresses.

AJgZfkqagmjajiB5pbAuXfh7yG9M5iMY9v
APjdUEiCX2VfXRsh1BNRDXUbjMsTjXMyCT
AKcofzy2QjT6U3L2ekqyTrDuc3GS4tZR1e
AYJWvKESbRoRt8krm5bZNiVqc2DhPx5eBP
AVqRJTCPAR5hP1dbwhNcYX83UDiMFNi8pE
ATk5sZMnfUq6brhawaUvb2TUJ5JGBiT5UT
AdSJSDKvAkNLNXT6BgqgghkVm13UwuMFv6
ALbfJXCQZEvedBGg1J5a8hSga5aHcVh2WZ
AH4iAPn5Custyzm4tak6By2iyPmUARVF28
AFvV2BpTD5FGESFDww9dGHsHdpu1RDpryj
AVpwukHqGch8Wyyf1vxCD74UVfwwMSoE4u
ASJWxLQ7ZyJs3b6BnyyrFZbVKZCLGeqt4f
AYQwvfpHHZhKLHmCVnVd6H2PiKtbB5rsHU
AW9FLMGEz7Gfn4yVc2rUi1fdDi9Us36tYq
AXdiVGBWUtQbbXUHoKa6z3x3QMY79f6ZNR
APsjgVJPAtCorTjL2tLNB57RdCqKRJbKF6
AXif7x3dvukyVf8WnpiDrPTRmFzzpHJWbv
ARuirTGMuHcj5GgRgvHjJanrKjUwAujbPk
Aei22bhuXAJDuBtFt9o6Nx1QD2r73o7NcE
AL7nAQ8w88Hwff7uKSnThyhqgLCSxW9Zyv
AXkTQuECcpF7DoPzRhq8gyk6tyvnrEM8G8

Balduro gave 1 million aur to the Auroracoin foundation so I assume this would be that address.

I'm working on this now. I will post the node list and the compiled QT clients on the auroraspjall.is forum. I'll post here when this is done.

Not just that. Auroracoin.org now redirects to auroraspjall.is.
This is good news!

That is great molecular!
We need all the help we can get. We need to do this properly.

I will let you guys know when we are ready for testing.

Just send me a message if this gets too much, I will chip in with you to pay for the mining rigs.

I think that DigiShield should fix one of the main problems we are having here and that is the multipools like you pointed out. Beside that the new bitcoin core also prevents various possible attacks on the network that the coin is vulnerable to now.

Yes it's a hard fork and we need all the pools, exchanges and blockexplorers on board

My estimate is that the code will be ready with basic testing in 10-14 days. Then it is just a question on how much we want to run it in testing before we officially launch it. I assume that it won't be easy to get everyone to update in sync but since we are very small atm this is the perfect time to do this in my opinion.

The thing is that this might not be the only hard fork we might need to do. I was hoping that we would not need to hard fork more than once but it might be that we will have to as these stalls are a serious threat to the coin. Other reasons to hard fork might be to take over the premine addresses (highly undesired but necessary if balduro doesn't burn the premine), Merge mine with some other coin/s if we can't get large pools to merge mine our coin or to implement a PoS along with PoW if merge mining will be off the table for some reason.

The plan is to use DigiShield.

I'm working on updating Auroracoin from the current core to the latest bitcoin core with a better difficulty retargeting implemented. That should take care of these kind of problems.

We have been in contact with Ghash.io to get them to merge mine Auroracoin with Bitcoin. That would not require any changes to any core code nor would you need anyone to agree on it as it does not affect the Bitcoin mining for anyone, they would just get the mined aur as extra and I can't really see why anyone would object to getting any coin extra without any extra cost. Ghash has done this with a couple of other coins before and this only requires Ghash to change the miners on their end.

We have not gotten any definite answer but the response from them has been positive.

This of course goes hand in hand with us updating the Auroracoin core to the latest Bitcoin core and that is well on it's way already and will be launched regardless if we mine with Ghash or what algorithm we would choose for the coin (if not merge mined with Ghash).

On a side note the exchange should see the day of light in just over a month. The project is finally coming quite well along now after some long delays in the beginning. I will update you guys later when we have a launch date which we should have in 2-3 weeks.

Then for anyone that was wondering about the foundation then it has been delayed a bit. I've been doing most of the necessary work go get it established but recently I had platoon of the flu parading through my home lately so I've been away from work lately. I'm back now and I will continue this work as soon as I get my workload down at my work.

So for those who are wondering, things are still moving forward. 

There is an updated pool list on auroraspjall.is the new Auroracoin forum.

The list is here: http://auroraspjall.is/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9

Sorry Baghead, what do you mean?

Hi sawa, I have added your pool to the list here http://auroraspjall.is/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=9&p=20#p20

Was wondering the same.

Done all the digging I could and it all ends at Cloudflare and cloud flare doesn't allow direct IP access. I assume it's still up and running but I don't know if it has another access to it. Like from an alternate domain.

Yes I completely agree. The premine being destroyed is the single most important thing that needs to happen.[/list]