Etherium could turn out to be a decent launch. I really supported the coin until the IPO when companies bought in...This is the first coin with businesses investing during the IPO and that scares me (the decentralized libertarian side o me), although it could mean that the coin succeeds because of it (as I believe centralization is more efficient, although less fair).
Don't expect much from
Scharmbeck in terms of growth over February. Its a necessary project for a crypto's infrastructure - but it won't be producing investment results this early on. Its main purpose is a USD --> WDC right? Coins have this on coinmkt.com and thevaultofsatoshi and it doesn't really shoot prices up even when they're first added. Look at the volume from the vault of satoshi's first day:
Not too impressive (outside of Doge). Primecoin, FTC, and NMC are all large coins that saw pretty much no volume. Quark was somewhat surprising with its volume almost matching LTC considering that Quark already has USD --> QRK exchanges.
As for the China crypto scene: This is an extremely confusing area because of how banks interact with the government. I personally think that the market will have a short term rise (and possible fall back to where we are) pretty soon because there was a lot of FUD about the Chinese completely leaving cryptocurrencies. I think they are here to stay and investment will increase if this is true. As for the popular coins in China?
Bitcoin, Doge, and Quark. I hate Doge, and will stand by my thinking that it is a bad investment for medium and long-term, but it will probably go up during february. Not only does block halving = fewer new coins every day, but the Chinese fucking love Doge. Surprisingly, they love Quark too which is consistently the 2nd most traded coin in China (Doge and Quark beat out LTC somehow, and PPC isn't even considered).
Just my 2 coins
