Just because a coin is pumped doesn't mean it isn't a scam. I recall calling the gold merchant they said accepted Earthcoin way back at launch, they had no idea what an earthcoin was. Technically it is a good sign is stuff like this is being pumped though, maybe the ICO instascam stuff is running out of steam, and that is far worse.
earthcoin has been around for ages also...price is rock bottom, unless it goes in into ltc/eac territory...
ICO shit is pure shitstorm of shit. Like shit tsunami mixed with shit volcano spewing lava-shit. it was "invented" (its IPO also....just replaced public by coin) because greedy shit devs were getting heat with premine, then instamine, etc. so they decided to have ICO's to pre-sell premine...sigh.
Earthcoin's at 15th place in terms of volume today. Scam or not, that's impressive volume.