Quote from: spatula on April 13, 2016, 10:14:09 PM

Well my comment was actually just in jest, poking fun at your seemingly biased list. I'm sure we could go around and around about what investors see as important and what could lead to long-term mainstream adoption, in an experiment that has never been done before. DASH and XMR (and pretty much all crypto) are travelling in uncharted waters.

It is a fair question how the list was constructed. A healthy portion of the items there come directly from coingecko.com. While I can't say that their methodology is perfect, I'm not aware of another site that comprehensively rates coins based on a variety of factors. So if one wants to compare market cap with other other metrics, that's really the only way to do so (outside of doing a lot of costly original research).

This method has been both effective in identifying coins whose market cap ranking is out of line with other fundamentals and also apparently predictive (an informal observation; not tested rigorously) in the case of coins such as Ripple, Nxt, Bitshares, etc.

This is not the primary basis for my comments about Dash's price and market cap being inflated, however. I offered it as support for the idea that this claim is not a radical one when viewed against the backdrop of other fundamental factors (just as it was not radical to claim that Bytecoin's market cap being higher than Monero's was also inflated).

BTW, coingecko's methods are highly flawed in the case of coins, such as Litecoin, which were once extremely popular and active and are less so now. That's because many of the metrics are cumulative or effectively cumulative (all of the github metrics for example), therefore actions in the distant past have disproportionate influence relative to the current reality. However, this probably has little effect in the case of Dash and Monero.