Here is something I wanted to do long time ago and finally I forced myself to do it. This is not related to MEOW or is it?
I have checked every single coin that has been published this year based on this website.
https://www.altcoincalendar.info/coinsI checked all of the bitcointalk threads, twitter and facebook related pages, websites, exchanges or anywhere I could track down specific coin or the activity of the community members, developers etc... It took me more than 60 hours to do it.
My conclusion.
1. Most of the coins are created with newbie accounts.
2. All of the developers are gone after ~7 days
3. In all threads there are comments about taking over the coin from the dev and saving it.
4. Most of the coins had multiple forks
5. I could select only ~5 coins published this year that I would like to have now, mine or invest into them. Based on exchanges, usability or interesting features, devs with plans, active community.
6. In most of them I was the one who was try to warn people about various problems there and that is not smart to invest time or anything else there.
7. Lot of the coins are POS coins without any future.
8. How can be important what algorithm is used on PURE POS coins???
9. It seems to me that there was 5, no more, developers who performed all of this, by the style of writing, design of the OP, and community members gathered around specific coin.
10. Lot of miners, investors left completely bitcointalk because all of that, you can investigate by the checking last time they visited this forum.
All of that is something that you already know, but I just wanted to prove myself all of that with detail investigation.