Although there are recommendations to invest into a cryptocurrency, that is only represented at two exchanging markets, with a dev, who seems to have abandoned the coin, I would urgently give the advice for newcomers: Don't invest or do it with small funds. Pumings are not enough to give a coin a solid value especially when you see the price movements of IFLT for one year on coinmarketcap.
I can say with an absolute guarantee that the dev has not abandoned, nor does the dev have any intention of abandoning this project. Not HODLing, I suggest buying now....scared to buy then just watch it over 2018 as things will start to play out. BTC was never going to be worth anything either, but 8 years later we saw something that was (and still is) a POS in the literal term not crypto reach a 20k$ valuation. People talk about supply being a factor, but fail to take in consideration of price vs supply.
Let's touch there: So BTC at a value of 10k USD. Most people transacting will not be transacting with a full BTC but rather in points of Bitcoin known as satoshis. BTC max supply is actually 21million * 100,000,000...or 2,100,000,000,000,000...How do we come up with this calculation? By removing the decimal point. we bring BTC to the fractional amount that most people are utilizing. ETN on the other hand has 2 decimal points or; 21,000,000,000 * 100 = 2,100,000,000,000 or 1/100 the supply of BTC.
Rarity is not a factor in the cryptocurrency world, and it truly never will be. BTC doesn't solve anything, it was just the first coin that got into our knowledge. InfaltionCoin has enough supply to actually be put to a real world use case scenario, without being so diluted that it wouldn't hold any value. The way a lot of you are talking in here, I think you may be the true crypto newbs. But hey, let's actually talk and see who has more knowledge of cryptocurrency, and maybe we will all learn some things.