You are correct. I know what I am talking about and have been hired by devs to coach them thru problems exactly like this (coin metric problems), problems with bad PR, and problems with exchanges not willing to list their coin unless I convince the devs to fix certain things. I have done this for too many alt coins to even remember. A few of the top of my head are Vanilacoin/Vcash,  Denarius (DNR), Quatloo (QTL), Xuro, Pepe/Meme, and countless others. I have dealt with hundreds of alts over the last 5 years and solved all of the jobs I was hired to solve 100% of the time, and they were all a win-win situation. I accept bitcoin or premine bounty of the alt if the dev wants to hire me. Most of the coins I have helped went 10X over a few months on exchanges instead of going negative 10X. After the coin gets thru the first few months problems and reaches a fair, stable, and increasing price, then my job is done. I always hold the coins for months or years depending on the situation and also only sell when the market can support selling coins without driving the price down once their is large enough market cap and volume. If the devs want my help please contact me.  I also do twitter support and promo (usually during the first few months of a coin before high price professional advertising is done). I have over 14,000 all crypto followers (miners, pool ops, exchanges, traders, investors) that follow me @CRYPT0N1TE (the 0 is a zero and the 1 is a one). If devs would like that service or retweeting their news to the entire crypto space, they can also contact me about those services.  I am not some newb or guy trying to get cheap coin or get rich off an alt coin. I am just fine financially, and do this as a passion and hobby. I am over 50 years old and have been involved with coding and building computers for 40 years. I have been involved in crypto for about 5 years and you can see my legendary status and number of posts as well as the same on twitter. I have a few gpus and usually only turn them on to help devs test things or when a new interesting coin seems worth mining, because I pay very high electric rates and just mining the popular coins like eth/zec are at a loss for me. This coin I wanted to mine, because I see it is a good old fashioned POW coin with a real product and appears to have a large hard working team, but the 10k block reward for 23 hours blunder WILL ruin this entire project unless it is dealt with instead of swept under the rug. Mark my words and experience on this.