Bitcoin has broken a downtrend since its ATH. Thats big news in its influence overall for crypto, Blackcoin is doing battle with the .000039 area roughly but its also outside its previous downtrend so I see action now as establishing itself beyond that now
All activity has moved to twitter and gitter. (https://gitter.im/BlackCoin_Hub)
Blackcoin is an established coin, I see tons of discussion on gitter including how influential BLK has been in Proof of Stake. In 2018 we may see some of the largest crypto economies switch over to the Proof of Stake standard rather then Proof of Work. Theres very good reasons why this will keep happening, it'll likely bring alot of attention to the established POS coins like BLK