Quark was massively premined and that put investors off. Other coins like secure coin are using similar algorithms to quark and their networks have been working for years. They normally give their algorithms different names to the quark one but they are essentially the same.
Oh my god damn fucking god you are stupid. (it would take two seconds to Google it or look at the ANN topic)
That is a bold face lie.. i know i was here when it launched.
And you are the 1,000th person to say this moronic bullshit lie too.
Seriously people be VERY careful what idiot shady darting in the shadows little douche you listen to around here.
Anyway screw this guy and his dumb bullshit lies..
To answer the question.
I would say it suffered from "Another coin syndrome"
Some other coin came along and people dumped and dived onto the next one.. for PROFITS.
And what helped push this along was MAX KEISER and his pump & dump shenanigans.
On the Algo itself it also then became the template for a thousand other coins that came out afterwards.
An endless stream of coins came out with more or less merged algo's.
Such as X11 or X13 etc
Quark had a mix of algo's that i believe was intended to provide an extra level of security.
Whether it accomplished this point or not i am not sure.
So.. the entire scene plagiarized the living shit out of Quark then gave it no credits then bad mouthed it with lies then dumped it to death until it got delisted.
It's what you scummy little profiteers do.