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Yeah, that's true, but I'm afraid that we still lose out on many potential members by this waiting period. However, the next proposed hardfork will take care of this issue ;)

Will it really? How?

Hopefully it will! ;) You can read the proposed hardfork here. It has been 6 months since it was announced, and we have not really hard any news about it since then, so I can't really tell you much more than what is in that post I linked to.