The downside of not having an ICO or pre-mine is indeed that this Xtrabytes is easy overlooked since there is no funding available for marketing and campaigns.
the downside of this coin is the 100% premine based off a dead ico.
it all sounds like interesting stuff but they really should not have hitched it to something that lay dead on yobit at 1 satoshi forever.
it should've begun with a clean sheet, not sullied itself with that association.
I disagree. There is always speculation surrounding new coins. The route they decided to take helps to validate that the work they are trying to do is real. Could they fail? Perhaps but if they succeed then i feel overall the new devs will have solidified their commitment to the project in a way that could not have be achieved otherwise.