I think there are two contenders for the title of "first successful national cryptocurrency". One is AUR and the other one is Guldencoin.
Guldencoin is in the much difficult position because the country financial system is based on the EURO backed by the EU behemot. Iceland recently quit the european integration. That means independence!
Also the size of the country matters.
Finland has a national aidrop cryptocurrency running. But i didn't follow FIMK too much.
My believe is that if a national cryptocurrency with wide adoption will emerge, it will be from a northern country.

Corrcection.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1044432.msg11267267#msg11267267

It does not matter that the dev stole some coin, it been said many time by others that Icelanders don't know about btctalk. I won't be much on for next month to follow this thread but I advise everyone not to sell coins cheap. I have built up close to 1% of the total supply just by trading and will sell in small quantity when time is right not to crash market. Good luck to team if it fails I don't care if it succeeds I make some extra money and become rich off teams hard work. bye for now.

sorry I wasnt folowing auroracoin very much, just wanted to ask, why original dev gave up on it

Probably I am going to say a lot of things the new dev team knows already. But I am still posting, I might bring up something new, you never know.
To be succesfull in some kind of business it is often not much more than copy/pasting competing companies in the same branche and do better where other businesses perform weak.
From this point of view Aurora can look at Guldencoin. Guldencoin has a couple things done very well. They made an easy to use software for merchants who want to accept coins. They have the mobile wallets ready, so the people can easily spend the coins.
Regarding the NOCKS system ( the possibility to pay with Guldencoin when merchants accept BTC), which Guldencoin is using, I am not really sure if Aurora needs it, because we want Iceland to use Aurora and not BTC.
Another important thing is how merchants have to do their bookkeeping. I am not from Iceland, but I guess there are payd taxes too there. So, merchants that accept Aurora must be sure that they know how to bookkeep. What looks most obvious to me is that, when a merchant sells some product for Aururacoin, he does the bookkeeping as if he sold in Krona. The fact that he owns Aurroracoin now, which can go up or down in value, is his own risk. But I can imagine some people have better ideas. So people holding Aurora have always a risk the price wouldn't be the same the next day.
Some kind of price-stabilty for Auroracoin will eventually be good to  convince more people to use Aurora. The price of Auroracoin started on the moon, because the altcoin business was ( and probably is) full of sheep, who never really calculated if the price was right. During a year the price was decimated to 6k satoshi to climb again to 28k, what it is now.
The devteam looks really serious and we all like that. When the devteam will perform well, and communitymembers attribute and help, the ultimate goal of having Aurora used by everyone in Iceland might be possible. Imagine Aurora manages to be succesfull, then the price of Aurora will rise extremely. We cannot help that, because the market will make the price. Something we ( and then I mean the people who currently hold some Aurora) cán do, is helping to keep some pricestabilty. When Auroracoin-price rises without the big bumps ( ups and downs), it will convince more people that Auroracoin could be more stable than the Krona, but what we don't want is price spykes like 200% in 1 day and 150% down the next day. Then some people who bought at the top are getting less attracted.
We also don't want Aurora to be a coin which price is stablized by a foundation that uses the 1M Aurora to stabalize the price. That 1M should be used for development, I think. I am telling things here, BioMike also thinks about a lot. As far as I know he does a lot of stabilizing for Guldencoin, as well. So actually, I am asking other communitymembers ( including myself) to put up some buy- and sell orders on cryptsy to make the orderbook bigger so we will not see these crazy changes in price. Of course we will never be able to prevent from big rises and falls, but we can make them smaller. To attract and convince more and more Icelanders tu use Aurora, a slowly rising price will be best.
Like mentions many times Aurora has big advantages over other coins to be succesfull; the monetary history of Iceland and for all the concentrated population. But before reaching out to the people, we have to make some stable foundation. Aurora has to easy to use, easy to bookkeep and the price of Aurora should be a slowly rising the coming years without the big bumps.
When basics are solid and Auroracoins are easy to buy via local Auroracoins or the Aurora-Krona-exchange office ( I don't know wheater the devteam is thinking about a physical office or an online exchange or both) we can start a marketing program, online as well in the streets of Reykjavik.
A marketing program should be build around an “economical education “ program. The best way to convince people is by explaining them economics, explaining people how fiat money works, explaining what quantitative easing is ( nothing else than stealing from people that have money), explaining the people that Krona's is nothing more than believing a government that failed over and over again in history. Because of the Icelandic monetary history, Icelanders are probably the best educated people in the world regarding economics, so this part wouldn't be too difficult. In Europe and the US the sheep (like 99% of the people) are still thinking they have a solid currency until it will fall down, like every currency in history did, in case of quantative easing

Sorry for the long post and poor english, I just wanted to be helpfull.

We don't. But as I hinted at in previous post, I want a healthy exchange market for AUR vs. BTC. Cryptsy is the main market right now (bter liquidity is low). A third market can't hurt, can it?

I was a stakeholder of the "old" Auroracoin. Can you please provide information how this coin differs from the old one and how you are planning to reach all islandic inhabitants this time?

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/

AUR top countrycoin again. This is why small amount of coin is better, guldencoin have to be 100 time better then AUR to have same marketcap because so many coin.

How many total coin will AUR have now after delete of premine?

It's a great story, I don't blame whoever is really Baldur on these forums hiding behind a sock account, there is a lot of pressure on the real devs when they create coins by the community that supports them. So at least with the Baldur still in control of the coin there is less pressure on him because it's almost like this new entity is doing everyone a favor.

Brilliant thinking!

There's only one way to lose money:if you're selling CRAVEs at these funny prices.

Imagine what happens when China realize what CRAVE and BLUR is.

I can tell you just don't expect it so soon and don't expect the trolls'll come back here to say sorry,I was wrong as well.

One more time DO NOT debat to losers and trolls,you just feed them.

Sorry for my english

Cheers

this ain't no Britcoin  

One thing you can expect with the Best Dev in the Crypto World! Always expect the unexpected $$$
Sorry you didn't get the memo!
All the best $  

No more new coins please.

Lets revive some old with good potential and already established name instead of creating new.
If they dump the premine in 18 days and are working on development whats bad about it?

Does it all matter if it is a scam or not? Coin is currently "dead". New dev team takes up "dead" coin, kicks out "scammers" (block pre-mine) and starts to build up. What's the problem?

I guess the people calling "scam" here, don't have any AUR, so what is in it for them?

A new team, A new coin for Iceland. IcelandicNotes will be launched in June.

After leaning from the early mistakes made by AUR distribution we want to start with a clean slate for Iceland.

Transparency:
Every team member will be contactable by phone, email etc Trust and Transparency is very important in Iceland.
Company address will be given and people from the public will be more then welcome to come visit.

Fair Distribution:
No Premine but coin generation will be done in new innovative ways, the focus will be on developing the currency for Iceland and making it usable on launch.

Team
The core team will only consist of citizens from Iceland and will outsource any needed skills we can't do in house.

Development
More to be announced closer to launch.

I will announce our new forums when we go live. It's time to give Iceland the coin it deserves.

Why is this problem? Premine must be destroyed is that is what promised. It will increase value of all our coins and then we sell back to Iceland people at high price and profit. I am not rush to sell and will hold until price is good.
I suggest you keep your coins in many addresses and few wallet.dat files as there won't be many coin and value will go very high when all plans come for Iceland.

@BritcoinFTW

I'm french speaking canadian - so my english may not be that good yet !  Practicing a lot the last year in cryptos and others related projects, mostly within boards and skype, but since I'm surrounded with people from US, Canada, Germany, Equador, neatherland, Iceland and so, maybe I got some bad spelling from them all . 

But it's one part I do love with all these cryptos projects - I meet a lot of different people from different part of the world, and learn a lot from them.  I realy enjoy it.

+100. Very well said!

You have to understand that this coin had an amazing launch and captured mindshare quickly, so we are on EVERYONE's radar by now.  Twitter personalities, traders, people into other coins, everywhere.  After scam after scam over the past year, everybody is disillusioned and skeptical.  That's normal.  There is a constant fight for capital in alts, that is the game, that is why we see people come into this thread or popular threads spamming random coins and other products or services.  In the early lifecycle its easy for people with large exposure in other coins to buy up large volumes and dump to try to destroy a competitor.  We just have to weather it and let the tech and ecosystem speak for itself.

We don't need to be going into other coin threads and trolling them or stirring things up.  We don't need that kind of marketing, we already have captured everybody's attention.  They will come here, probably forever, thats just the nature of the game.  Float above it.  Trade smart.  Know how to de-risk your position.  Put your money to work for you.  The volatility is normal.  It will probably continue for some time.  Use it to your advantage.  Look at what a few of our supporters have been doing while all the crazy shit is going on around them - they put their heads together and built a viable business with their adrenaline node service.  Block out the distractions and that is the kind of stuff that is going to pay off in the long run.

In the larger scheme of things in this crazy world, remember we are all on the same side and fighting the same battle.  This shouldn't become a cesspool of coin vs coin bullshit.  There's a line between good natured ribbing, and over the top trolling.  Let's try to stay on the good side of that line please and keep our eyes on the prize.