When the difficulty drops, many hoppers point the ASICs to BTE. Then, an entire epoch of 2016 are mined in 1 or 2 days, and the difficulty rises high. The hoppers leave and the steadfasts don't have a lot of hash power.
In other words for transactions the coin is not of much use right now but that would change if the difficulty were stable?
An early fair copy of bitcoin has an obvious appeal if it is a workable coin.
The website needs to be updated a little. Coinex.PW seems to be out of business, likewise some of the other links. BTE looks like the best buy amongst the unpremined coins at
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