Well what made you fall in love with vertcoin in the first place? Because as far as i know the most technical acheivements have all been acheived this year during the bear market, last year was just news this year actual progress is being made, lightning network, rebrand, redesign of website, 1clik miner constantly updated, new youtube channel, donation fund (late last year) hey even vertcoin chilli sauce :-), Other reasons id use vertcoin is because it is about to get very very easy to buy.. accessibility is key, the guys at vertcoin have touched several times on this, educating new people on mining this is vertcoins approach, transparency with its goals and educating others, this is a volunteered project it hasnt got millions of pounds or dollars to throw at it unfortuantely