you r spot on.

Now there are already like 2400 blocks, are they kept?

The only notable difference, I might have missed others, is the difficulty correction would be 14 days OR 2016 blocks whichever comes first. This would help IXCoin avoid getting the Namecoin fate of getting pumped and abandoned after difficulty goes through the roof. Apart from that, there doesn't seem to be that much difference. Just that comparatively, IOCoin founder seems a tad more moral than IXCoin

By releasing new code/clients with a new epoch block.

higher inflation rate(i dont like but w/e)
faster blocks, so faster confirmations and transactions.. this is good.
address checking to keep you from accidently sending iocoins to bitcoin addy.. this is missing in ixcoin and namecoin and is good.
wallet encryption, the most begged for feature that is STILL missing from bitcoin, this is more than good.
they start time is being announced, no one is taking a bunch of IOcoins before launch and everyone will be mining on day one who wants to.. unlike ixcoin.

IOCOIN actually addresses issues in Bitcoin, namecoin and ixcoin that have yet to be fixed in any of them.

Yes, its fixed.

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Don't waste your time mining on the released client source code, i'll use a different genesis block It was an experiment to see how many mates will compile the code and start mining from beforehand.

The launch date will not change again, please sorry for the delay.

Selling 2116 I0coins for the current blockchain   Be an _early_ adopter and buy them!

You make it sound like all those people were arguing that Ixcoin was a scam just because it was an alternate blockchain. In fact, most of the posters who called Ixcoin a scam focused on the fact that hundreds of thousands of coins were already mined before the project was made public, unlike this project or say namecoin.

I sure hope it is worth it for ya!