because of the reasons i've stated over and over again.
if you don't believe in Quark get out of crypto - there are others in the free market.
Zeta is fully distributed but its also SHA256
Digitalcoin is now floating pretty much in the free market after the Devs dumped its Scrypt however.
Prime is CPU only which has kept it pretty well priced as no one could really "corner" that market on distribution.
Caps (PoW PoS hybrid ) started out manipulated but confidence collapsed with much growing pains now its been revitalized no single entity has a huge monopoly on it i don't believe.
what else..... let me think...
FTC has seen a lot of volume you could say a lot of people hold it because it has been constantly mined and dumped (similar to Quarks birth) ( i still think there are better options but its free market you have to admit)
Infinitecoin - Mega - World - all been around the pump dump scene to be held by most of the market.
the POINT is neutral control
if you invest in something that a few people hold (or you can reasonably assume only a few people hold ) YOU will lose -
if YOU want to lose , keep doing that .
if you want to invest and hedge against probable fiat value loss ( you own local fiat currency losing a lot of purchasing power)
invest in non manipulated Crypto.
So now quark is not really mineable, wouldn't a pos/pow be more suitable? or implementing a new algorithm? Why don't you get some new devs, quark doesn't have an active dev to implement promising features if there is one, don't count too much on max guevera he won't do more than maintaining the code and cut the crap with neutral control, free market blabla. People want to see marketing, projects, dev activity. You can't just have a wishful thinking attitude.
The only marketing project quark has now is shaqfu which comes out in 2015, also quark has a perk where shaq will talk on quark. These are the only things right now, but it's not enough.