Most interesting is the lack of trade volume the last week or so. With most alt coins I have seen a continued volume of trading all the way down down down. With PRT we climbed and then just silence. There are a LOT of Particle already out in the wild so it's not like it isn't available for trading. I think people that mined or purchased PRT see much potential in it and have very little desire to dump unlike most coins where miners dump as fast as they mine. I have not noticed any dumping of significant volume. The yang to the ying is that there is also a lack of buyers right now so I think people that have not heard of PRT just are not getting the message. This is where I think it is clear we need to make some more noise and toot some horns.
We need new investor blood, not new miners...same boat as Quark...mining is pretty much in maintenance mode and now its time to move to the next level and get this going as a currency that is used. It seems like the mining reward wind down is even faster than Quark so there is really no time to waste in getting people interested in using PRT.
The new wallet is going to be great but it also sounds like developing the '3rd party app' layer will take some time. Would a possible idea to get some interim publicity be to release the wallet in 2 stages. The first could be the graphical updates plus some of the hardwired new features like ticker and link to CoinedUp etc etc. That way we get some buzz and get people interested in the wallet and used to the layout and maybe some of those people will get interested in building apps etc etc. Then once the 'particle accelerator' (or whatever the app store gets called) is finished release the second stage of the wallet.
Go PRT!
What good is a wallet if no one is mining to support transactions? Without mining crypto coins don't work. When everyone stops mining there won't be any transactions.
It isn't so much a problem that there was so much mined so quickly, the problem is that soon even the meager awards that exist today for mining will be gone. What are the plans to fix that?