I hope that spam post by @Truthfull gets removed, it helps nothing and has no basis in reality at all. Stupid fudster.

Drak censoring the thread is a bit silly imho, I myself had most of my posts deleted due to discussing the price and commenting that the zynga news looked like a scam which made it all the more surprising to find out that BCT is considered such an unimportant outlet for news regarding the coin, why sensor the thread in the first place then?
And I got called a troll by some of the more cultish coin devotees which hurt my feelings and demotivated me from participating again until recently.

Drak stated that he set out to produce a technically proficient coin which was more feature rich and resistant to centralised mining than bitcoin, there was an initial ICO price which the coin stayed high above for a very long time and he used the funds raised to do things like employ the most publicly notable developer after Andresen.
I heard him on "lets talk bitcoin" promoting the viacoin ideology and treechain technology with some collaboration from the bitmessage team as they faced some similar problems so far as I understand it.
It's no secret that from the very beginning this has been a coin of innovative features and solid code, if what you're looking for is hype then you should head over to the doge thread where you belong.

If you're an investor in via it should be because you believe its technological direction to be superior to bitcoin and win out over time. If you don't understand what implementations like CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY are or what it does then you're an idiot for investing in a product you do not understand or cannot be bothered to investigate which is totally your own fault.

The silence has been deafening these past few months and Drak did f**k up in that respect, communication is a BIG DEAL but I'm quite sure that mistake wont be made again any time soon.

Viacoin is undervalued and underrated right now but that is the case for crypto in general, there is nothing 'extra bad' happening here.
Counterpartys XCP is currently trading near 0.006 BTC and it's crap! it's slow as hell. Have you ever tried using it? It's a nightmare.
But i do use clearwallet and I would happily use it every day of the week. I even conducted a small IPO for a bitcoin app I wrote on there (unsuccessfully though as I failed to raise enough funding for the app to support itself).

If you aren't looking at the current price of viacoin as an amazing opportunity right now then the fudsters causing the dip probably are.

#incomingwhiplash