I guess that's true.. I find that the hype surrounding a coin can really make or break people's perceptions of its value and worth. If a coin which was well received a few days ago (35BTC per day) suddenly drops to page 3 on Bittrex with 3BTC per day of volume, people's perceptions may be that it is a scam, PnD or any other negative thing. I realise that the price WILL rise again, I just worry that the whales and speculators who drive a lot of crypto's volume and velocity will pass over the coin. Doge lost its whales and speculators and NO amount of community endeavour could save the 90% loss in market cap over 6 months. /rant
I suppose. But I never equate volume as to meaning a coin is good or not. Also not sure if GPC has even been about long enough to attract whales... a big whale could simply swallow the coin whole. I think it's just a lot of us little fish swimming in GPC right now.
Things that could help is if the dev did some of that hiring stuff, got more folks involved and there were more discussions on potential new coin features. I think some of that may have moved over to reddit, but it's been sort of quiet here in that regard the past couple of days.
So long as folks see an active dev or team, see things being worked on or discussed, it sort of keeps people a bit less on edge... basically helps support the price of a coin while things are being worked on.