hostmaster's response actually proves my point. The guy just won't listen to anyone. What exactly about ECC is advanced that other coins don't have? You have team members going nuts on the forums and you think you can get out of it by remaining in a state of delusion?
Also, people need to stop with the bubble market graph. It provides false hope for people who are vested in a dying asset and is a parlor trick at best. A similar graph can be drawn for BTC; but the reason BTC recovered past the 'median' is because of the technically competent developers and foundations that were far more mature than ECC.
How is ECC top 100? What are the metrics for that valuation? Also, if you're using coinmarketcap.com, it's actually 164 ATM. Bear in mind that the market cap is actually just the current value per coin multiplied by the amount of coins available; in other words, it's just a number; a number that is arguably not representative of the coin's future. Volume, value per coin, market depth-- it's all skewed to hell. Open your eyes and get out of your own delusions before you can hope to improve things.
In my limited research, I think
http://www.coingecko.com/ might be a better place to find more accurate valuations. Surprisingly, DRK coin's developers have a low valuation regardless of the its recent price hike. How do you think ECC coin's developers compare to DRK's developers? Even Dogecoin's devs are valued higher than DRK; actually Dogecoin's devs are second place.
Don't get me wrong; I'm not trying to FUD anything. It's just the reality of the situation. These are the things you should be comparing yourselves to because they are the metrics people are using to compare you to other coins. It's true that you guys need to work together; and you can still create a good coin. You guys just might be a bit delusional about it and I thought I'd mention that as an outsider because I find it really interesting to watch. I'm also interested in how you'll turn things around.
As for the 'despair', you should remove all that now. Think of it as starting from scratch and build from there instead of thinking you need to make up for lost profits. Maybe it's easier for me to say so since I wasn't invested, but it just makes sense to remove the unnecessary despair of reacquiring your lost value in order to actually work towards creating a better coin. And people going nuts and talking about shooting their 700mil coins; don't do it. You'll regret it if the coin actually does go up in value.
At the very least, if you guys keep working on this coin together and learn a lot, you will be valued in the industry once it matures. You don't think there will be a need for a massive infrastructure to support cryptocurrency in the future? Hell yeah there will be; and people who have developed coins, dealt with the loss, traded the coins, and know the mechanics of the coins will become consultants. There really is some growth here. The painful kind of growth.