The dev said some time ago that before bittrex or any other high profile wallet.....that the Windows wallet needs to be "right" and
that the Android app needs to be out and working.
Then you will see xspec really take off....and not because of the exchanges. Nothing would be worse than making xspec so generally available and not meeting expectations.
On another note...I get excited when I read things like this.....
"Recently, the demonetization of 500 and 1,000 bank notes initiated by the Indian government led to a nationwide financial crisis, as banks and ATMs ran out of cash to dispense. Both the banked and unbanked populations of India have been struggling to obtain cash to fund day-to-day operations and basic necessities ever since."
".....43 percent of adults in India made no deposits or withdrawals in banks."
And that's just India. Read the full article here. Its mostly about btc but the opportunity is there for all alts, especially privacy centric ones.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-tripled-since-last-year-reasons-to-hold