Oblivion is an evocative word-choice but 'toiling in obscurity with little recompense' is perhaps a more accurate projection of negative-outcome.

Just parsing terms here... if "oblivion" is meant as a low price per XSPEC/SPECTRE unit; that's a supply-and-demand issue at root.  Specifically, those who have held this coin are selling it (for whatever reasons) in greater proportion than those buying it.  Perhaps some of them are devs or whales that need to pay some bills, perhaps it's because the BTC chart doesn't look great technically (and BTC's a bellwether for cryptocurrencies generally [ https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage] ).  As an accumulator persistently/stubbornly trying to coax some action onto the Bisq platform (oh look... there's another willing-to-buy XSPEC offer at more than 60% higher price than anything being traded on Livecoin     ), I don't mind the lower price.  BTW, the links at the bottom of the October 2019 newsletter listed a handful of honeypot centralized-exchanges (anyone remember that Cryptopia fiasco?) but neglected to include a link here: https://bisq.network/markets/?currency=xspec_btc .

If "oblivion" is meant in the sense of a "dead coin" (no-one staking, no exchanges, no devs, the users gnash their teeth but don't have the technical skills to do anything substantive or aren't "social media influencers") I think that's really unlikely.

Most coins have their bandwagons, the people that have invested time and money supporting it.  In the case of privacy-coins it would be a tough sell to dislodge say people involved in promoting PIVX, or Monero, or Verge, Zcoin, Bulwark, etc.  Should the marketing be tailored to people already interested and historically-invested in other cryptocurrencies or should it be directed at those who haven't yet touched a single cryptocurrency (maybe heard about BTC from time-to-time)?

Bisq, if it's not dropped for lack of trading volume  [see: https://docs.bisq.network/exchange/howto/list-asset.html under the heading 'Inactive assets will be de-listed'].  But maybe the centralized exchanges in the long-run that will permit listing of privacy coins (helping to keep freedom alive and the statist panopticon at bay) will be in non-OECD countries only ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OECD ).  Good luck with that.

Alas that this project went by the boards (when the price of Ether dropped precipitously) : https://www.cointrust.com/news/varyon-token-funding-autonomous-crypto-nation-project-goes-on-sale
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=varyon+seastead&t=canonical&ia=web Currently, I think the Horizen people are the only crypto currently filling some of the breach with the Seasteading people.

One thing that Spectrecoin has going for it is that it has kept up with the evolution of OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/) .  I've noticed that some alts -- which haven't done their homework and are floating along with old BTC-code -- are underpinned by obsolete OpenSSL versions and one has to actively dumb-down their system to get the alt to compile in more modern variants of Linuxes and BSDs (Unix-based systems).

The fact that Spectrecoin has devs that seem to be on-task (or at least hanging in the wings to be brought in if necessary) contributes to long-term viability.

So what?!       I'm not personally interested in people putting a shingle out motivated primarily by their vanity or those who take solace in arguments-by-authority (by wanting to stand behind someone who goes by the same name as their mother knows them as).  The technology is all-important; whether it's a pseudonym or a verified person... in the long-run, not so much.

Example A: Satoshi Nakomoto
Example B: Various anonymous contributors at phrack.org
Example C: Various anonymous contributors to https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ / https://nostarch.com/gtfo / https://nostarch.com/gtfo2
Example D: Various anonymous contributors to ___ [anything selling the steak and not the sizzle]

If I misunderstood and you're griping about there not being a rampant and all-encompassingly pervasive social media campaign see the above [social media is a hook for the NSA and other oppressing/statist (or otherwise malignant) classes of persons to data-mine themselves into emotionally-driven peoples' affairs if you haven't figured that out yet].

Well... tomorrow's a new day. 

Meanwhile, someone *ahem* is willing to buy XSPEC at a 50% premium on Bisq to whatever the centralized exchanges are offering now.   That door-crasher special will probably be available all weekend or until someone musters the resources (effectively loads the software on a computer and sends some XSPEC to the provided address to allow the arbitration mechanism to kick in) to make that peer-to-peer exchange happen.

Hopefully that seller can appeal to some smart person's venality this weekend (thereby helping to push the price up in the long run bcs ... hypothetically... if the XSPEC buyer were myself ... I would only sell stakes anyhow [being a long-term focused individual and into stuff like the following: https://mises.org/library/money-bank-credit-and-economic-cycles .  To give the Cliffs Notes version of that: it makes a comprehensive case for why personal retained savings are a more optimal form of investment while central banking and debt-finance [fractional-reserve banking] should be recognized as relics from the 16th through 19th centuries that had their era -- replete with periodic boom-and-bust cycles that are documented in detail.

So, help make the world a better place, stick your finger in the eye of technocratic command-economy-infatuated plutocrats, and trade some XSPEC for some better prices!  Or be the plaything of inertia and don't seize the day. ^_^

I see and understand your point (volatility can suck if one has exposed his- or herself inopportunely).  However, volatility is "bread-and-butter" or fresh air if someone is trading and can recognize in a chart where the aggregate buying-and-selling has painted a chart.  Stability should be recognized as a chimera if a person values all concerned parties coming to their own conclusions about what is valuable and what is not using their own judgement (rather than relying on some supposedly-authoritative opinion that might not have sound premises).

Moreover, if someone figuratively mortgages the farm and auctions off their own and their posterity's life-savings to pile into a position ** in any single thing -- no matter what it might be ** there is a lesson to be learned in diversification and timeliness of predictions.  Hopefully, such a person manages their affairs more sagaciously in the future.

** Sorry, I'm not able to access Discord right now (I promise to delete or otherwise tinker with this message upon achieving the end desired). **

Over with the tumbleweeds and Monero community on the Bisq platform ( https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bisq/ , https://bisq.network/markets/ ), there's a Willing-to-buy (XSPEC) order that's 35% higher than the highest sell-offer on Livecoin (this, or similar, can be expected on almost any given weekend).

As indicated before, the Bisq platform is a decentralized exchange where the coins don't leave your computer and get sent to some honeypot in say... the U.K. or the Netherlands... or New Zealand (Cryptopia).  It also avoids situations like this:
https://www.coindesk.com/quadrigacx-crypto-exchange-users-say-they-still-cant-get-their-money-out . Bisq operates over TOR natively and assigns the traders .onion addresses.

Notably, for citizens of the "Land of the Free", since the coins are in your possession and not in a "Foreign Financial Account" there is no FBAR reporting requirement that is expected to be filed with the U.S. Treasury each year.  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act#FBAR -- the penalties for reporting falsely or not reporting are noted on the form with virtually medieval penalties of five years in prison and/or $10,000 for each instance).  Truly nasty stuff ...  That form is intended to force people to report their maximum balances annually in say Switzerland, the Bahamas, Panama, and other "offshore" tax havens -- people don't realize or choose to ignore how the State probably views crypto-exchanges.  I don't think that self-serving, mendacious, mercantilist, con-man president is likely to drop that requirement to file with the Treasury (in addition to the IRS-filing) anytime soon; and, unfortunately, I don't think Andrew Yang will win the election in 2020.

As a tool against encroaching serfdom (the situation those people protesting in Hong Kong are facing), I think Spectrecoin should focus on code-review, long-term planning, and maintaining a viable product.  Marketing is important as a secondary priority but there are the cliches about "making a silk purse out of a sow's ear" and "selling the sizzle and not the steak" that need to be considered too. I think too many in crypto want to become insta-billionaires and are not focused on principles, ideals, or the long-term.   Many are probably looking at trading (into bitcoin or fiat/statist/Empire-currency) when the real, long-term prize is really considering the PoS character as potentially a viable income source not so tied into the ethically-bankrupt political-banking/debt symbiosis.

Moreover, in society at large (where corporations are treated as "people" that can flout laws internationally far into the future and many people seem to let their emotions or tribalism dictate their conduct) I think people need to look into stuff like:  
www.seasteading.org and https://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/current-mission-status.  Hopefully there'll be more political and economic options someday -- preferably, IMO, incorporating ideas along the lines of this: https://www.amazon.com/Liberalism-Lib-Works-Ludwig-Mises/dp/0865975868  or this: Karl Popper [ https://www.amazon.com/Open-Society-Its-Enemies-One/dp/0691158134 or this:
 https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/spencer-the-man-versus-the-state-with-six-essays-on-government-society-and-freedom-lf-ed , the voluntary taxation scheme advocated at this "joke" site: http://gunsanddopeparty.net/spooner.html (see especially L.S.'s excellent "No Treason" series of essays: https://oll.libertyfund.org/people/lysander-spooner -- these should be required reading for everyone that ever had a civics class in high school , or maybe some Buckminster Fuller futurism (_Critical Path_, _Grunch of Giants_).

Anyway, someone please give that Bisq order (and Bisq in general) some consideration and make 20 or 30 bucks off my generosity.

Yep, my entreaty met with success.  Thanks to whomever.   

I'm dismayed about whether Spectrecoin will keep Bisq as an exchange in the long-term (and if we don't it may ultimately shoot us in the foot).

It can be seen from their trading volume -- https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/bisq/ -- that the primary function of Bisq is as a peer-to-peer Monero-Bitcoin exchange, followed by Bitcoin-Euro private exchanges, followed by trade of another prominent privacy coin (ZCash-BTC).

Meanwhile, their page https://docs.bisq.network/exchange/howto/list-asset.html indicates that "At each new release we will check whether already-listed assets have been traded in the past 4 months. If this requirement is not met the asset will be removed."  And Spectrecoin is essentially at 4 months since a trade using that platform now (I was on one side of that trade in December, and I've had buy orders placed off-and-on the past three weeks [including currently but it seems people only consider the centralized exchanges/honeypots]).

Bisq seems ideal for Spectrecoin -- just look at the point-of-view and ethics contained in their "A brief Introduction to Bisq" ( https://docs.bisq.network/intro.html ) and their Vision page ( https://bisq.network/vision/ ).   Note, in particular, that coins stay in one's possession until a trade is made (instead of sitting at an external exchange pooled with other coins that can be a tempting hacking target [as with Cryptopia]).  This is also important for any future point when governments or regulators might apply "soft pressure" to exchanges or countries that host centralized exchanges.  It seems probable that centralized exchanges that grow more prominent or professional in the developed world will become less private; whereas, more private centralized exchanges will be operated out of less-trustworthy locales.   Also Bisq operates exclusively over Tor.

Anyhow, if we do lose Bisq because people would rather chase volume on centralized exchanges, I've at least done my part by posting this and trying to buy there peer-to-peer simultaneously.