The coin will live on. I am stopping my PERSONAL development on the coin. I will update my pool site with that information. As for any assumptions that I "quick-profit-taking and pumping and dumping" how can you Dump a coin that hasn't even made it to an exchange. Nor has anyone bought or sold a single coin? I still have my original 85 million coins. My other dev still has his original 85 million coins. the other 20 millionish coins went toward bounties and logo design. I will personally be giving my side of the pre-mined coins over to the new developer who can then do as they wish with them.
My assumption that you were not committed to this coin is that you did not have appropriate back-up and disaster plans in place for your server... maybe I am being too harsh... but for me... it takes real money to pay for mining equipment and the power to run it... also that all the data for major EAC pool server was lost as well in this crash makes me wonder about the commitment of the HackShard pool team... enough concern that I am no longer mining on any HackShard pool for any coin... on all levels this is a bothersome situation.
Appealing to the community for help and admitting you were in over your head would have rallied the community behind you and I would have been willing to stick it out to see this coin through to smoother waters... letting the community knew that your were actively looking for someone else to take over the release of this coin... very acceptable, even commendable... but just quitting because it all got too hard... unacceptable.
I know nothing about the nuts and bolts of developing and releasing a coin... but I have been involved in enough releases as a miner to know that it is a lot of hard work and sleepless hours... not sure why you were expecting anything less.
