Actually, NVC isn't a PPC fork or clone for a long time. We working with bitcoin codebase directly, it's a PPC-like bitcoin fork.

Not so many... Currently 10 persons in our staff, but the most part of them not linked with this project directly.

Current chain age is more than 100 days now. 

https://github.com/CryptoManiac/stratum-mining

Forked from TheSeven's repository and added nvc-specific changes. It should work, but wasn't tested yet.

P.S. usage of v0.4.2 daemon is highly recommended. Also you can't use non-local pubkeys for coinbase transaction output.

There are not so many pools, 4 or 5. Khore and p2pool are the biggest ones.

P.S. StratumServer will be updated today, because we found a serious bug. Don't use it in production until that will be fixed.

vsystech
It works for own p2pool nodes, but there is no support for cooperative mining nodes yet. The fix is quite simple, but actually, we prefer the network of many "small" p2pool nodes instead of the big one.

Anyway, it seems that we have no choice, because some users already need it. So, new p2pool version will be published as soon as work under StratumServer will be completed.

Changes list announce:

• Shares difficulty selection, by using difficulty ratio as password;
• New blocks version schema support;
• Cooperative mining nodes support.

Actually, there are not so many differences. The main differences are dynamic ROI calculation and another entropy bit source.

Nice debugging session we had 

Stratum servers is in open beta to all miners from nvc.khore.org.
Please, report any strange behaviors to my email.

Cheers.
 

Almost...

If height > 16 then Balthazar.isRight()
else Balthazar.isWrong();

 

I've been mining russianmafiacoin steadily for a few weeks now and will continue to do so.  If you really pay attention to coinchoose.com it is actually the most stable and consistently profitable coin with a reasonable difficulty (not like litecoin or bitcoin).  I was chasing around the newest/most profitable coins for a while but I think it is a waste of time and hashes.

I'm waiting on the update to p2pool so I can give that a shot.