never heard of pandacoin, darkcoin though is on most people lists
I also haven't heard about pandacoin. Darkcoin is pretty nice coin but, IMO, it's better tom invest in BCN, BBR or DOGE !
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I can't imagine that Doge will survive this year. Yes it has his up and downs but as a simple gen. 1 copy coin with no special attributes, it would be hard to see this coin in 2015 still alive.
There is just less support for panda coin, so they will also get big problems. Without supporting people, you definitely can't survive.
My fully support goes just to a few coins atm.
For me personally NEM could be that big player I was looking for a long time.
Especially since you can see or read everywhere threads about NEM. Some of supporters, some of hates. That itself shows me, people are talking about NEM and have discussions about it.
That is a first signal for the popularity of NEM.
Unique Technology is not the most important part of a coins health. I am going to go with #1 trading volume, #2 hashing or similar measure of active distributed network, #4 contributions by individual developers, #5 people that actually use it for things other than speculation
By those measure Dogecoin has most coins beat by 10X, not exaggerating here, they are #3 in volume, with merge mining they will be #3 in hashing, #2 in dev contributions, #2 in people using for things other than trading.
Dogecoin will be here in 10 years.