I think maybe if they truly don't care they simply don't get those coins.
For example at Bitparking's mmpool you only tell it the addresses of the coins you want, those you don't want you simply do not get...
Plus how many pools even merge Ixcoin at all? Only bitparking ever merged I0coin and back then it was also the only one merging Ixcoin too...
So maybe doublec, the admin of bitparking, has all the coins!
Most people who merged mine do so at a pool that only mines bitcoins and namecoins, I think? Maybe Devcoins too in the case of Eligius?
-MarkM-
Interesting, thanks for the insight.
I for one would merge mine anything even coins which i thought were a waste of time, since it's free and it will help me pay for the electrons.
And as for mining pools which may in fact be holding a few million ixCoins, the same holds true, why not dump them for anything you can get if you think the coin is crap, and maybe keep a few hundred K just in case.
And it's clear to me that almost no miner or investor thinks ixCoin has any chance. I have yet to find even 1 person like me who thinks ixCoin is worth accumulating in any large quantity - something i have not seen for any other alt coin, let alone one which has been around a few years, from the very beginning.
For this contrarian reason alone - it's a good idea to hold some ixCoin.
Recently another good reason was added to my ETF 2.0 theory. Look at Namecoin, it's been around since the beginning, it's been tested thru and thru and it has a massive hash network with a large loyal following - yet just like that:
it died.
That's scary.So if you're a bank or a country or a major investor and you're thinking of investing millions or you want to start a Crypto ETF 2.0, one major thing you will need is a tried, true and tested coin which has no chance of causing you any major hard forks or major setbacks.
That said, ixCoin stands among just a few coins which meet this criteria. And the best part, it's way more liquid and soon the entire mining risk will be removed, since the coins are almost fully matured and minted.
It's really little things like these, which most don't even see nor think about, which reinforce my conviction in ixCoin.
And it is very odd ixCoin has survived this long with not only an anonymous dev but also a non-existent one. This is yet one more reason ixCoin stands alone from all the other alts. If you're gonna take a coin over or do an ETF it's best to not have anyone in the way - the fact Satoshi disappeared helped the adoption of Bitcoin enormously and now we have this big "Coincidence" happening with ixCoin.
In my opinion these coincidences have become too many to be ignored yet it seems nobody sees what I'm seeing.
I will soon prove to be a real visionary or the biggest idiot here. lol.