He stole three million coinye from me. A the very least he could have sent an email to the address we registered with telling us we have one day to withdraw our coins. Instead he just shut down the pool without warning.
It's not dead, but it is lacking documentation and community involvement on bitbar.biz and bitbar.info. The owners of those sites need to get the projects up on github so the community can contribute.
Bitcoin should hit $10,000 in the next rally. It was cut short by the Chinese central bank announcement. You can tell the last rally at ~1,200 didn't get to reach it's peak because the crash wasn't sharp enough, it was stepped. This means people didn't feel like it was outrageously overbought. Proportional to the previous rallies, it should have hit $3,000 before crashing back down. The next one should easily cross $10,000.