I have nothing against Aeon but am confused about why it has been doing better than Boolberry recently on Bitrrex.
Boolberry has less coins in circulation (slower mining reward schedule) so I would expect its price to be higher even if the two coins were the same. Boolberry actually has lot more features, a larger community and has been around longer.
What do you think?
IMO one can not draw any conclusions while volume is this small. Anyone with 100BTC can make BBR or AEON (or both) markets looks as he/she wishes. When the volume picks up, and soon it probably will, they will probably be coupled in price for a while before they land more firmly in the real world. Only then will their price start to be distinct by real differences. I am speeking of long-run price differences
Dev activity, or lack of it here, explains all in my opinion.
dev instantaneous activity certainly gives bias to the price somewhat up or down. And if come bias is prolonged it my cause non-linear effects in real world, by reaching some critical mass and whotnots. But, IMHO, long-run is more important although people usually state that time in Cryptoland goes fast. In other words, lack of noise is also important so devs can make proper long-term reflecting decisions. And lack of noise and high dev activity kinda exclude each other. Kinda