Can someone with sufficient and unbaised knowledge please explain to me why MRO is only listed on a few small exchanges and why it has basically flatlined while darkcoin has gone through the roof?
What is it that has made darkcoin so much more attractive than MRO?
My take on it is this, since Darkcoin is based on Bitcoin it is operating in an already established eco system many tools that are required for it were already there and only needed some changes in code. Monero on the other hand is starting from pretty much nothing. Everything needs to be created from scratch or be heavily modified and that will take time.
The reason it's listed on few exchanges is that the volume isn't high enough for the bigger exchanges to pay someone to write the necessary code. This will of course change as Monero continues to grow.
The second part, it's not really flat. There is a slight uptrend that is going on right now, the problem that will fix itself with time is that there is a concentration of coins in the hands of people who got in early with massive hashing power, every time the price goes up a bit they unload some of their coins.
My 2 cents worth.