Quark is going to be huge: It is incredibly fast and it is the most secure coin there is, at a time when the security of cryptocoins is becoming a major issue, and transaction speed will become an issue for any coin that wants to move beyond enthusiasts and into the mainstream.
Fast doesn't really mean anything, you have to wait for more confirmations anyway to ensure a secure transaction. More confirmations = more time. It's a zero-sum game. Darkcoin has 11 rounds of different hashing so you could argue that that is the most secure, not quark. You're trying really hard to get people interested, but the fact remains that it's mined out. No one wants to mine a mined out coin, and no one wants to buy off bagholders.
thats a tiny bit ironic considering your signature has Premine coin in it ?
of course it looks dead here - this is a development forum plus a forum full of increasingly angry miners that are losing profit due to the slow/fast death of both SCRYPT and SHA256 as decentralized algos.
if we tied Quark to this boat it would surely sink just like the MtGox set up, no , with all due respect we will seek new waters, anyone here that sees outside the narrow confines of a mining profitability calculator can come along for the ride, if not, that's really no problem.
in fact with all due respect it remains to be seen if Crypto really has much of a future in the USA at all, with all the trusted exchanges now in Russia or China, and lots of services popping up in both EU proper and Eastern EU / Dev nations.
it looks like the combined effort of Regulation and the Banks that run the Government are going to turn some parts of the "west" and specifically the USA into a Soviet Crypto state.
the rest of the world will move forward.
a good way to look at it is , Russia China and the BRICs are "Android" and the West and the USA are "iOS".
there will be a clear winner and loser here.
so should Quark tie its self to a loser nation run by Banks , or try to develop anywhere it can but specifically in the areas that are obviously less risky, fortunately intelligent US citizen can come along for the ride as Crypto is supranational.
some will lots won't , that life , that's the free market.