Another thing as I know this has been brought up before in the past. Wouldn't hiring a developer to create a new coin with the specified details and NobleCoin Branding be a lot
more efficient than going through the task of finding someone to transition the old codebase? Couldn't an "ICO" be offered through Bittrex using old Nobl as the only purchase option be instated?
The first two got offered quite a substantial amount of the remaining premine months ago but it didn't pan out. Most developers have a number of options: help coins like us for 5-10BTC or so worth of NOBL that is hard to sell, work for a p&d group for 50+ BTC over a few months, or create your own coins that will rake in anywhere from 70-100 BTC ++. The choice is not hard. Looking at a wallet swap now instead would cost 3-7 BTC (not a hard fork) which I don't have nor could I have sold that amount without negative backlash (price damage).
I'm now not interested in transitioning the old codebase any more since despite half a dozen 'positives' it never materialized. What you describe is a wallet swap which is what I'm looking for now. We will use Bittrex using the old NOBL to facilitate this wallet swap (which also costs BTC).