For all that I gleam about EBT in terms of physical, mental, and electronic work that goes into EBT why is it that via Market Cap the coin's price and volume are both extremely low?
You have to have patience. EBT is a special brand of coin. First, send a transaction to your friend and see how long it takes to show up in your wallet. It's instant (although it does take about 3 minutes to be fully confirmed, by design). The EBT network is super fast and very healthy. Second look at any of the voting pages of the exchanges. The EBT team does not allow any bought votes because buying votes is for pump-and-dump coins. Third, look at the pre-mine. It's fully accounted for and the premine that has been spent has been spent completely on development.
EBT is a long-term coin. The philosophy of the development team is to keep EBT healthy in terms of the block chain and network as a long term objective. The idea is to build value by building adoption. This is done by maintaining a strong, dependable brand with a clean public image and also by extending the technology surrounding the coin. This won't put money in the pocket of short-term speculators any time soon, but it will reward users, miners, and long-term speculators ("investors") in time.
All of that is good, admirable in fact, but it doesn't preclude the CC from having higher present value, it doesn't stop anyone from buying the coin on an exchange, and it certainly doesn't stop anyone from profiting in the short run.
Today I saw a EBT volume for the day of $100, that' simply insane, there's no justification for that in my mind. So I ask the direct question: Do you want the value to remain low, do you want the exchanges who have it to delist it, do you want all other exchanges to ignore it -- is that part of the overall long-term plan?
Auroracoin is nose-diving, I actually recommended that they request being delisted from the exchanges because it is simply hurting their brand. For them a low price wards-off investors allowing holders to keep their CC more in-house. So I know there are reasons for most of the things that happen, but when those things aren't obvious, questions are asked. That's why I'm asking -- why, is it by design, is that what you want?
If not, I assure you, even as a rookie, I could have that price increased dramatically in days.