started mining today on official pool.
Like that fork of algo, the only problem that blocks get confirmations very long time. Hope dev's will make more PR and get more miner's on coin. Hash will grow and block's will born quicker.

Altcoin is everything, what is not bitcoin 

Imho it not predictable. Positive news from community and traders are always going to be strikethrought by goverments. All the time when BTC get new high value, news tell's us something really disaster and exchange rate goes down again. As example, it can be like last year news from China market. But i'm really hope we will get high, a really high exchange rate at the end of this year.