That would not be splitting up the community. This is what Baldur wanted all along and that is what we are doing. There is nobody that is against us in this in the sense they are working in another direction.

I personally think that the last stage is not that important. The claims have been very few and a lot of them have been the same people buying up the claims from others cheap and selling on Cryptsy. What I do think is important now is for Baldur to do one of the following.

• Renew the domain
• Hand over the domain to the group
• Give the group a link to the claim site that we can use from a new website we are making
• burn the rest of the premine.

All the members from our group have sent Baldur a request for this and we are now waiting for a response or action. I have never doubt Baldur to burn the rest of the premine but it seems that it might have to happen sooner than planed but we will see.

There is a group of people working on taking over the Auroracoin project. We have not announced it officially as we have been organising and doing some ground work like working on an isk-aur exchange in Iceland, updating the core code and many other projects that will make a strong foundation for the future development of the coin. We have set up a forum since the official one was taken down and since the website has been taken down we are working on securing a domain and setting up a new page. You are welcome to check out our new forum and ask all the questions you have there. Our new forum is hosted on http://auroraspjall.is

Also a lot of people donate their coins to some charity. So those addresses should see a lot of claims being sent to them directly.

I have created a facebook group for everyone interested in helping with the development of this coin in one way or another.

Anyone interested please send me a pm.

There are also a lot of people on Facebook paying people directly for their aur claim. My guess would be that this address is owned by one of those people.

Well I tried.

Thats better

All good and legit questions.

Who is controlling it?
The person or group that calls itself balduro. Other than that I do not know myself.

Who is checking on things being legit?
I know just from my environment that a lot of people here have claimed. Actually the claim rate for this third phase of the airdrop was extremely slow to start and it wasn't until it was blasted on some facebook groups that the claim rate started to pick up for this phase.

Just look at it this way. If this was really a scam balduro would have sold the premine on the market in the beginning when the price of the coin was in the tens of dollars. He would have had more out of this for just a fraction of the premine than he would have for the total supply today. You can still check the premine addresses and see the amount untouched matches the amount that should be left taken into account what has been distributed so far.

Regarding the transactions you pointed out in the block explorer it only shows that there were 13 claims handled in that block which is not really abnormal. The large amount you saw being transferred is easily explained. When an claim is done the mechanism that takes care of the airdrop clearly sends 636 coins to the claimers address and the rest of the coins from the origin address to a new address. So if you look at the transactions carefully you can see that the receiving address gets the same sum of coins that were sent from the origin address minus the 636 coins and that this address is the origin address in the next transaction and the same thing happens all over again.

How do we know beyond a doubt balduro is not claiming 5 million coins for himself?
I know this is difficult to accept but you would have to take the word from some Icelandic people on this. Who can confirm what I'm saying regarding the distribution here. Other things can be seen in the blockchain.

I'm sorry if I didn't answer this fully for you but you are welcome to point out what you would like me to comment more on.

I try to answer what I can of your questions but up till now you haven't really asked any real questions except in the form of FUD so I didn't really think it was worth an answer. Thought about explaining to you how to read a block explorer but then your FUD just kept on rolling so I decided not do. If you do really intend to have legit questions that really can be answered then please do.

We are working on getting access to edit this thread. If we do the OP will be updated or we will create a new thread for this coin.

The airdrop is explained here http://auroracoin.org/blueprint.php

Sorry about that LTEX. I've just had a limited time here the last couple of days and to answer you clearly needed and deserved a bigger reply.

Well I live in Iceland and I'm fairly sure that this claimrate is correct. We had a lot of discussion and media coverage on Auroracoin at the time of the initial airdrop.

Later when the exchange is finished we will have a completely different market though. The real value of the coin will be seen then.

Of course I'm not saying that launching a market by it self is enough. There would need to be some active advertising and education for this coin and just cryptos in general happening as well. That should be the main focus of the auroracoin dev group. close to 20.000 addresses still have their coins from the original airdrop. That means that it would not be so difficult to get those people active given the opportunity to buy, sell and use the coin here in Iceland. When the exchange is ready we are likely to see much less if any leak of auroracoin from Iceland and have the ability to get people here involved.

You seem to have strong opinions and experience with cryptocurrencies and clearly an intelligent man. I would love for your constructive advice and discussion on these matters. Lets not go down to the level of calling people idiots. Yes?

Guys. I don't think we really need to be arguing here.

We all have the right to our opinions. No one who is active on this board has any power to change the airdrop anyway so no reason to argue about it. What we can do on the other hand is try to work on building a foundation for this coin. We can all agree on that, yes?

I'm thinking that the volume would rather indicate that someone was expecting the price to drop because of the airdrop and wanted to sell before the price went down. The volume is much higher than what has been claimed in this phase of the airdrop and the time when the majority of the coins were sold is between 6-8:00 in the morning here, which would make it very unlikely that it was someone from here selling.

Yes, according to the airdrop blueprint.

  Yeah its no simple thing thats for sure. I'm also sure that it will get good attention when it's up and running.

Just a thought. Would it be a big deal to compare the transactions to the pre-mine addresses?

Yes, that is correct. Nobody knows about it as it has not been announced anywhere. This doesn't mean it's bad or something to have great concerns about. There are 4 months where people can claim this and during that time we plan to lift this coin up.