The hardforks were needed for the code rebase. Saying that forks kill coins everytime is not true. Monero hardforks every 6 months as a routine upgrade.
In any case, I reckon the killing of Asics was what made the coin weaker. It would have been the beginning of an industry behind Aeon. I also reckon that it would have been the miners working for the coin to be listed in Binance and other big Chinese exchanges.
What we now have is a weak community and a weak group of miners mining from their homes.
Aeon had* a weak community. Nobody did anything but complain about the price and how there were no features. Nobody stepped in and just started doing things. People are doing that now. There are some things in the works for Aeon right now unrelated to smooth and stoffu keeping aeon code up to date.
You have to remember that ANYONE can contribute to Aeon. Anyone can (well have always been able to) make software that integrates to Aeon in any way. When have people asked themselves "What can I do for aeon?" The Aeon project is a good base for what it was intended for more than just a coin to make money trading on exchanges but it will never get there if community members don't pitch in to make it happen. Sitting back is not going to make anything happen. Aeon wasn't some scammy ICO where the devs took $40mil from uneducated people with the hopes and dreams it would be something someday. Aeon IS something, and it was launched fairly without pre-mine or token sales. You have to look at those projects that had pre-mine or token sales and ask yourself what they have done outside providing a daemon and wallet to obtain and sell their coins to an exchange they bought with tokens to list them?
Please list all the community efforts that give significance, for you, in Aeon and tell me which efforts should we be proud of that might cause Aeon climb in market capitalization.
Also, we are bagholders of this cryptocoin, stop bamboozling yourself.
While not the exact list that you wished for.. it's relevant to the conversation:
A new AEON Community was published to Reddit on August 25 2018.
Without over spamming our invites, we are up to 142 members.
Since launching, alongside members from reddit, we have done the following:
> Fork and improve an open source funding system:
https://aeonfunding.com> Funded a gambling system for AEON:
https://betaeon.com> Launched an XMR.TO type of system for AEON:
https://aeonapi.com> In progress of creating a whitepaper for AEON:
https://github.com/thriftyMinnow/aeon-whitepaperThere are quite a few other tasks and ideas that are awaiting for someone to pick up and carry the torch. There are 3 specific funding requests on the funding system which needs commented on for acceptance or rejection. These requests all add some sort of value to AEON functionality and availability.
On top of this, we're trying to encourage those who come on our discord to get involved with AEON's github issues/discussions so we can help push AEON forward. Unlisted are small tasks by various community members are who doing some PR work for AEON.
Fun fact: Our community has accomplished more for AEON in the past 30-45 days than what has been done in the past 12 months or more (not dealing with core code).