I believe the fate of this project will be decided on Jan 20, 2017. for now, I'm out of this now because I don't like uncertainties.
Im afraid the fate will be unpleasant as what u call a compelling project will turn into a blatant failure, and will be doomed and never recover unless all holders agree to save the buy side from crashing by holding on to their coins infinitely and not dropping a penny on buy orders.