As far as I can see, this coin is not dead. I can sync the wallet and mine it, with a lot peers. Diff is low, so pretty easy to mine. Also it is trading at btcltc.com.
Here are my peers:
{
"addr" : "198.50.233.12:17177",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305130,
"lastrecv" : 1380304569,
"conntime" : 1380301937,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 24380,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "69.147.229.226:17177",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305130,
"lastrecv" : 1380305130,
"conntime" : 1380301938,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105409,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "82.9.77.178:17177",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305130,
"lastrecv" : 1380305130,
"conntime" : 1380301949,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105410,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "69.147.229.226:43485",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305134,
"lastrecv" : 1380305134,
"conntime" : 1380302014,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105411,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "198.50.233.12:57142",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305133,
"lastrecv" : 1380305132,
"conntime" : 1380302284,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 24380,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "72.219.243.27:55071",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305131,
"lastrecv" : 1380305131,
"conntime" : 1380302853,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105430,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "77.232.6.196:62715",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305131,
"lastrecv" : 1380305131,
"conntime" : 1380303184,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105439,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "72.219.243.27:51453",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305131,
"lastrecv" : 1380305131,
"conntime" : 1380304172,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105462,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "184.75.223.154:58467",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305130,
"lastrecv" : 1380305112,
"conntime" : 1380304253,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105464,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "84.121.124.46:63783",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305084,
"lastrecv" : 1380305117,
"conntime" : 1380304302,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 65098,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "82.9.77.178:51967",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380305131,
"lastrecv" : 1380305131,
"conntime" : 1380304328,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 105465,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "70.79.24.157:50986",
"services" : "00000001",
"lastsend" : 1380304497,
"lastrecv" : 1380304441,
"conntime" : 1380304373,
"version" : 60006,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.7.2/",
"inbound" : true,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : 59801,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "210.83.80.202:17177",
"services" : "00000000",
"lastsend" : 1380305103,
"lastrecv" : 0,
"conntime" : 1380305103,
"version" : 0,
"subver" : "",
"inbound" : false,
"releasetime" : 0,
"startingheight" : -1,
"banscore" : 0
}