At what point do we decide to declare the original Dev MIA, fork off a new wallet and just make it a community coin? So far noone has posted any evidence of a cunning scam so as long as the bulk of coin owners (since I guess we'll stick with the now PoS phase blockchain fork) update to the forked wallet then its a takeover.
..good question, indeed.
well, if it turns out that this dev really stays lost after POW is done (ca. 600 blk to go... ~7-8h), I'd say that would be a crucial moment when decisions are due to be made, especially in relation to the fork, so someone needs to be there who could handle at least the upcoming phase of setting things straight with that mess.
so, at this point, the future (If any) of this coin depends on what happens with the exchanges. this is when one responsible person (usually the original dev) HAS to show up or it is overdue to be officially declared as: 'abandoned'. period.
... next question would be (as blocks should continue to be generated by pos), what's the status of the blockchain(s). my impression atm is, there's at least one wallet, that became hooked to the other branch while unfortunately having supposedly one of the most active transaction histories over that period of time, which is the bittrex wallet.
the status of those from b'ter and c-cex obviously needs to be clarified as well, as it's not yet clear if they went offline with their wallets just in case, or if they also hooked to the wrong*) blockchain.
and of course, there needs to be a final decision taken, which of the blockchain forks would be the least trouble to 'merge' the other to (howsoever) and will be the RIGHT chain. it's yet open to be determined but I got the impression, that suchpool, ipominer and last not least suprnova followed the original chain, while a part of the network to whatever reasons got lost and grabbed another chain (maybe ddos? network trouble + unluckily spread hashpower?).
my wallet, and most probably the one of the 8+ connections it gets, follow the 'dominant' chain as well.
I got connected not even once to the 'other' side of the fork plus no pool I know used that one, so I have no clue on how much of the powe ended at that side (maybe some larger solo's?) and for how long it has been followed along by whom...
might turn out to be not that much of trouble, but as well could, if pretty large amounts of coins have been generated on the 'wrong' fork from that time on (in theory ~4.000.000 spark on each side)...
I guess, some of the losses could be compensatet, some could be minimized (maybe market internal transactions are a bit easier to handle as only withdrawals and deposits use the actual blockchain to my knowing)... and it will turn out how these will be possibly funded.
now... lets hope in the first place, the original dev shows up, as he should be way better into the internals as someone taking over (any volunteers??)...
up to the moment, I don't have even a remote clue what on earth would make someone abandon his work at this point (ok, it's not a mans work of it's lifetime but certainly took some time and effort, even if built upon shade coin wallet) while neither any obvious profit could have been drawn from scamming, nor would it be extraordinary impossible to solve that forking problem... maybe he's fucked up about that fork or simply lost interest? maybe (in fact shit happens all the time) he actually has no clue due to other real world trouble keeping him busy? I don't know... time might tell.
... but one thing should be clear: if NOTHING happens within 24-48h after 14400, you can as well delete your wallet as SPARK will never hit some relevant marketplace again, ever.
*) what's 'wrong' or not, will be point of discussion at some later time. just for the sake of what fork of blockchain we're talking, I define the supposedly doninant branch (the one followed by ipo, suchpool and suprnova) as they have been running in perfect sync since then.
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if, by some lucky strike of chance, all turns out to be resolved... a wallet, that doesn't jump the gun when network is active while starting it would be on my personal wishlist