For the most part I think the cheerleaders, shills, manipulators, etc. (on all sides) are mostly wasting their time and the current result is about the same as it would be without them
How sexy are ring signatures?
I've never seen one in the wild.
Did anyone explain how they are going to take over the world?
Litecoin was mined like hell because all the GPU miners such as BCX were escaping Bitcoin as it went ASIC.
A coin needs something to drive that inrush of participation.
Even if we had 100X more oxygen, talking won't do a damn thing.