Dtc (and primecoin) has interesting coin emission algorithm. The block reward very quickly drops with difficulty growing.
It seems the dtc is designed to make rich the first miners, but not next miners.
It seems not very fair.
Dtc has no active development team.
It seems there are a few interested people. But they are not active developers. They just see, talk and wait.
There are a few big holders. And they don't want to change something. They prefer the dtc death then to lost their coins. They just see, talk and wait too.
Twitter site has many repeated and pretentious messages. I don't want to hurt somebody, but It is seems as scam. It is very bad for dtc reputation.
If nothing changed - dtc will die.
At present I help and will help to dtc.
You can hate me. But if nothing changed - I will think about create a new dev team for new coin with the same data saving ideology but without such unfair emission algorithm and without such hard legacy.
Of course you are right - those big holders are MarcusDE, OP (extro24), probably a few others.
It's not a scam, but they are awaiting to revive their bags they were mining this whole time. When somebody has 1M+ or 200K+ DTC, they have of course a lot vested interest in reviving dollar value of their bags. So you know, if you dont have interest in it - you dont have any obligation towards them. I will support you in creating new coin, with same goals, you have done a lot of for DTC, and nobody really rewarded you. I'm not a big holder of DTC, but idea was interesting to keep around and see, how it will develop.