With the amount of resources available for Verge, it is just a matter of time until more people know what Verge stands for.
It's not about just about profit - short term profit is usually harder achieve and usually lower than long term.
If you bought at 1-2 sats and held, you most likely would have been better off - two ways:
1/ Bitcoin was a lower price
2/ Your Verge would have increased 10 fold.
Repeat this with any price.
Longterm:
Bitcoin will rise with supply and demand.
Verge will rise with supply and demand.
I came in 11 hours after launch and they were already 20 sat. I had not even heard of Verge or DogecoinDark until yesterday. The only people who bought at 2 sat were "in the know" which is not a clean launch. Then again, since this is a relaunch it could never be "clean" compared to a new currency since billions have already been minted.
But I do agree, short-term trading on a commodity as thin as crypto is blatantly silly. Buy solid currencies and "HODL." I'm just hoping the privacy factor is enough of a drawcard for the average punter to make it work, although I'm sure sophisticated users will love it.
The people who bought at 2 sats or mined, were not in the know, most just researched, or saw something that was appealing. It was not a re-relaunch it was a rename or rebrand. Everything else remained the same.
As for a clean launch, yes I believe it was a clean / fair launch, this crypto is over 12 mths old and proved itself overtime to continue chipping away.
Now we are seeing more adoption and greater exposure. Once true marketcap is reflected on the charts a lot more people will take a look at what Verge has to offer.