There is interest and it is growing. I bet quite a few have heard about the whitepaper/audit coming which should get this resounding ahead in the near future. XMR's so called network effect is transient. BBR's price has been deliberately suppressed. I watched polo trolls bragging about dumping BBR at these prices to appease their fellow trolls and masters  

XMR's propaganda against BBR has really hurt this coin undeservingly. It is almost like the camp wants to ensure that this coin gets obliterated while they can surely tolerate scam coins which are based on the Bitcoin protocol, thrive and have valuation even more than XMR or approaching XMR. dga's post was a real eye opener.

How many have ever questioned core team member NoodleDoodle selling the most amount of coins in the OTC thread since launch of BitMonero? His optimized miners never made it to github until several days later and yet the mindless Risto army slanders zoidberg.  

Shame on some of the "core team" and extended team members of XMR who have been spreading this vitriol/nonsense nonstop on the forums, reddit and other websites. Others just took the cue from them.

Those who are collecting BBRs are going to be extremely happy in the not so distant future. Frankly Monero was an awesome coin for me. It just got polluted due to bad apples who didn't know how to handle the most amazing gift since bitcoin. If it were a corporation, there would be a couple of poison pills who would have been cut off long time ago.

It is upto BBR really to innovate and lead. Rest assured the word is spreading and it will keep spreading.