As long as people keep mining and trading the coin is alive.  Another dev could pick up the code and add features and work on promotion if needed, that's open source.  The coin is stable and on most days it's still in the top 5 on whatmine.com.  I'm not a sore loser, I'm a winner.   I bought low and sold right before we hit mintpal, that was a nice profit.  I continue to mine because people are paying me to--for more profit.  Sorry to say I'm not holding, but clearly some people think it's worth having because there are 3.8 BTC of buy orders on MintPal.  If you've had a bad time here cut your losses and move on--but there's still people here who enjoy a little METH    nlc1247, you have 17 negative posts and no positive ones--life's too short to spend it feeling pissed off.  Go have fun playing with coins you like and be happy.