How is real world development going? it seems it stagnated since last time I was actively watching this thread. Any progress of late?

Well, there is many other places to look if you want to learn about the real world development. For sure there is many things happening and has been founded many local nodes. many new merchants accepting faircoin etc

you can look here specially  http://market.fair.coop  online marketplace
http://use.fair-coin.org   directory of places accepting faircoin.

And the full faircoop community is becomming broader and stronger, step by step

I fired up my old wallet after a couple of years, I am on the latest client but no minting when I unlock for minting, anyone with ideas?

it's really old wallet.dat shows transactions, and my coins being taking back from it feb 26 2015, by devs.
transaction id: def18fe98a4de4af9dd569088c6cd81982527d2678acf86440f29d5c57ee40d9
                     82ddd781724b7f181caaeda5239beaea0b898ba09fff365d555eeeefe2d46ad3

Hello all.

Fairpay is launched!!

Fairpay is full working since today!. Thanks to everyone who made it possible! And now is moment to share and invite to merchants with motivation of becoming free of the banking system, to accept fairpay and become part of this movement!

Thanks to the partnership between FairCoop and Chip Chap, FairPay is totally disconnected from the mainstream banking system as the first full blockchain payment system for physical stores. And this is only a beginning which will lead us, in a near future, to build a full new banking system outside the central banks control.

As part of this collaboration, today we relaunched the http://www.fairtoearth.com website, to present these new FairPay services. From there you can
– Register a FairPay online account, which includes a fully working online FairCoin wallet.
– Access to your online account (web panel)
– Download the FairPay app
– Find out how to buy a FairPay card, and about the places that accept FairPay.

Full article in:  https://fair.coop/321-fairpay-go/

Spanish:  https://fair.coop/es/321-fairpay-va/

German:  https://fair.coop/de/321-fairpay-go/

Catalan: https://fair.coop/ca/321-fairpay-va/

Greek: https://fair.coop/el/321-fairpay-go/

It will be an assembly next thursday to decide about next official faircoin price

as i remember there's a buy limit of 1000€/week per user on getfaircoin

what are you worried about frankly. Its not that the Getfaircoin price is 50% of bitterer also there are not that many buy walls its almost impossible to arbitrage right now

looks like a promising future to FAIRcoin, Thanks to dev team.
love that fair pay new website, love the fairpay idea.
very professional great ideas, will be happy to invest some more !

Good luck to all