I appreciate the reply but in the world of Crypto, it has almost no resemblance of typical economic supply&demand reactions. Clearly the price did not move higher due to xx% slower in creating coin. I'd venture to guess it is still in a price(demand) decline.

You need to realize that crypto is only worth what the next youtube sensation or pop star(or billionaire) will gab about it. With only ~5% of the world involved with crypto and most coins being practically unknown(and 10 new ones created daily...), there will not be a demand for any of them except the big 5. All clones rise with BTC.

I am not knocking the system you have here, I am simply stating a fact from what I see in price charts. The only boost coins get is either from BTC going up or, as I mentioned, someone famous making people aware it even exists.

I have some. No point in mining and too little for earning in stake rewards. Time does tell, eventually