As I said above (for the first time), I am relaxed about this as there have been many coins come and go. The time between each new coin is just decreasing. This will be no different.

Look back at CMC one year ago, the numbers don't matter but these are obviously what were in people's minds:


Bitcoin
Ripple
Litecoin
Peercoin
Mastercoin
Nxt
Namecoin
Quark
Megacoin
Worldcoin
Primecoin
Feathercoin
Novacoin
Infinitecoin
Dogecoin
Netcoin
Devcoin
Anoncoin
Tickets
Freicoin
Terracoin
Copperlark
Cryptogenic Bullion
Ixcoin
Earthcoin
Zetacoin
GoldCoin
BBQCoin
Fastcoin
Memorycoin
Mincoin
Sexcoin
Junkcoin
... and on and on and on


All the ones scrubbed out are the ones who have actually lost 'mindshare' as they are no longer considered relevant. Most of them have faded to insignificance. Nxt is still slugging it out after a whole year.

I think you could do the same from 6 months ago and find the results are very similar.

There is a current surge to "corporate cryptos" (Ripple, Stellar, Bitshares, Paycoin) in an attempt to change bank balances rather than the world. I think the frequency of these will increase as more money is made. But it doesn't diminish the "change the world cryptos".

I think your timeframes are too short. Marketcap rankings can be relevant over long periods, let's see if PayCoin is still as important as the market suggests it is in 1 year from now..