The main thing to remeber guys is via does what counterparty does vut a hell of alot fastsr and more efficiently. and one big reason to back this coin is counterparty rely on the btc devs making changes and they dont. btcdrak will make anychanges needed to make via a sucess. so basically forget counterparty via is here.
Viacoin+ClearingHouse does what Bitcoin+Counterparty does much faster, but
less efficiently, with a higher orphan rate, greater risk of block chain forks and over all much lower security. Counterparty does not rely on the bitcoin devs to do anything. It's been running on bitcoin for eight months without a problem!