is this BTX project dying as the other Bitsend project ?
Ofcourse it is dying.
I suppose it depends on how one chooses to define "dying" with respect to a software development project.
I can think of three definitions :
1) the code and/or supporting materials (i.e. artifacts) have not changed during a particular span of time X
2) no new efforts at marketing and/or gaining new supporters have been initiated during a particular span of time Y
3) no enthusiasm for the project has been demonstrated by existing supporters during a particular span of time Z
Of course one could define software development death as a combination of the above 3 as well (and of course of other definitions which i haven't thought of).
I can say that from the point of view of 1) above, commits have continually been made to the code and/or artifacts over the last year, and specifically three commits were made as recently as last week. That tells me that unless the span of time X is less than a week, one could conclude that the project is not "dead." To see the rates of commits, you can see the chart here : https://github.com/LIMXTEC/BitCore/graphs/commit-activity
I don't have insight on points 2 or 3 above, because my use of social networks involving BTX is restricted to this bitcointalk forum. this leaves out many other networks, such as twitter, discord, wechat (china), reddit, line (japan), facebook, etc. (you can see a list of those here : https://bitcore.cc/community/ ). I think a good gauge of both marketing and enthusiasm could be measured by "real" activity in these networks ("real" meaning "not generated by bots"), but since i dont keep up with them other than this forum, my measurement of marketing and enthusiasm is limited to that displayed in this forum, which means I feel I don't have enough data to offer an opinion on either 2) or 3).
the fact that the code is available on Github, however, brings up an interesting point. Can code on github ever really "die?" i ask this because presumably even if all 3 of the definitions above were to return true values, with reasonable values for X, Y, and Z, the code would still be "out there" on github. Which means another group could take it over and develop it. i.e. "resurrection" is a possibility.
personally i am pleased with the efforts and transparency shown so far by the current team, so even though the price is currently very low i do not believe the project is dead. It is "dying" in the sense that most cryptocurrency projects are "dying" - there is bound to be a winnowing out of the projects out there to replace bitcoin. The question, i think, is whether the project can remain strong enough with respect to whatever definition we assign to the "dying" process (i.e. preliminarily with 1-3 above) such that it outlasts the other dying competitors to be one of the viable options to replace btc. (or to live alongside of it). From what i've seen of the contents of bitcoin forums of other competing coins, i feel that BTX has a decent chance of survival.
