A few thoughts for anyone trying to compare Syscoin to Viacoin. Really there is no comparison, they are simply in a completely different category no matter how you look at them. Here is why:
While both Viacoin and Syscoin had a presale, Syscoin has an additional developer premine on top (coins just allocated to themselves at the beginning). A developer premine is dangerous to the market because there is no base price considerations for them. Any sell at any price is a profit. Look at what happened to Ripple prices when a developer decided to cash out. 2% of 2bn coins is not something to sniff at.
Viacoin already has decentralized markets, ability to issue tokens, assets, stock, shares and pay dividends. Syscoin still has the markets in development.
Syscoin is based on old litecoin codebase, Viacoin is based on the latest Bitcoin Core and keeps up to date with Bitcoin Core source. This makes Viacoin the most modern and up to date of all coins.
Censorship - Syscoin devs are deleting negative posts, Viacoin leave them in so long as the poster backs up their views and is not repetatively spamming. This leads to healthy discussion of both sides. Viacoin are not avidly trying to defend their reputation but let actions speak louder than words.
Syscoin have openly engaged in attempts to prop up their market using presale funds for "buy support". This is market manipulation and not allowing true price discovery. While crypto markets are unregulate and this practice is not illegal per se, it is illegal in traditional markets because it paints a fake impression of the market.
fud.
Truth:
Viacoin is a copy and paste exercise modifying opreturn to use 80 bytes instead of 40 in bitcoin core.
Essentially viacoin tries to be what bitcoin is to counterparty (clearinghouse).. just renaming things. There is nothing new in the code.
Syscoin has 40% new code with an active team a bigger team than viacoin so more development going on. Naturally because of the extra code it takes more time testing which is happening now.
Syscoin said they would support buying in the market as community consensus was to do it. This allows to pay devs in syscoin and btc which is desired. It also helps support anyone who wished to get out of their presale positions. Syscoin devs like to listen and react to its community (no btc is yet paid to dev team until all features are tested.
Viacoin actively deletes negative posts and creates fud against syscoin by creating images on twitter and fake accounts on btctalk to fud the thread. Syscoin devs simple are too busy developing snd testing to worry about viacoin trolls. Maybe they feel threatened by presence of syscoin which wasnt meant to be the be all end all bitcoin replacement.. who knows .
Syscoin is compatible with btc ltc base so any security or technical advancements to the base can be simply rolled in without worrying about forking or redeveloping. Its really a no brainer as syscoin is the better investment from a risk reward prospective at these prices.