Yeah one of the things I wanted to point out (as someone who follows counterparty and nxt) is the difference in caliber of those who browse the forums and engage in business ventures in these two protocols. It's easy to say nxt seems better because of their pretty forum and the amount of organized hype they are able to produce for investors and such but in counterparty the type of ventures you see being created are all world changing level ventures. There are very few cheap "Lets start a thousand dollar business" ideas going on in the counterparty ecosystem.

When I gauge the potential value of these various protocols I look at the level of the developers and investors in the ecosystem and my goodness here we have people with ideas like the bitcongress initiative (http://bitcongress.org/) which aims to replace how we vote nationally using tokens made using counterparty, we got ColonyEarth (https://colonyearth.com/) which is another world changer idea whose currency permacredits will be created from counterparty, by the way if you never heard of colony earth scroll down on the link i provided and look at the investors/team involved in that plan, you got the freaking Euro architect on that team!! I mean these are just a few but just about every counterparty business venture is a mega game changer idea so I think it will take a bit longer to see the sort of market cap results people may come to expect when they compare it to nxt or mastercoin who come out with things almost weekly you see what I mean?