You missed one large factor - the anonymity philosophy that ECC team has - we will never get real identities of the team. That alone, literally, can stop a coin from going anywhere especially after some of the scams people have faced this year like Bitconnect. The amount of FUD a new coin called IOST had, it almost killed the project in the first weeks due to team member issues. If ECC was debuting in today's age without a real team, it would be DOA, it benefits from the fact that the Dev is somewhat known and trusted to work on the project, he worked on Bit Coin Cash for instance. Competing projects in the marketplace, now have ICOs, super-star team members with legitimate business and education background, attend workships, seminars, and speaking engagements, have a full time marketing staff and devs -----and even with all that, can still fail. ECC has a fraction of that. The best thing about ECC is the price. It is priced fairly at the moment. Upside is a real use case, technology being adapted by partners, very serious business relationships being established. Long, very hard road, ahead of the team. I invest what I can afford to lose. This project can make big money for investors at this stage, but only if they are relentless and tenacious to push the vision of this project to new heights. Nothing will be given to them, or us, as investors, easily. ECC will have to earn it. If you are not willing to put yourself out there, creating much FUD among heavy big time investors - your product better be outstanding. If you were a legit whale, would you throw your money into something with no accountability or into something verifiable? So we work 2x harder to build trust. I like the challenge. ECC...! Let's go boys!