I noticed today that, despite the recent uptick in prices, Viacoin's market cap is not even in the top 100 of coins listed on http://coinmarketcap.com.  I know things have been ugly for altcoins in general for a while now, but there are a lot of shitty coins out there.  There's really over a hundred more valuable than this one now?  That's pretty grim.  Really thought I had picked a winner here.   

You picked wrong.  There's no volume and no interest from the community in general.  Better dump now while you can than be a bag holder when this goes back to .00002

We should smoke some dab together some time. I'm sure we would have a blast!
 

Full resync usually takes under 2 hours for me, but if you got really unlucky with nodes, you can try stopping viacoin, removing peers.dat and starting over: this way you will get another set of nodes from DNS seed and may have more luck with these.

Regarding Peter Todd, he is. Keep in mind he is doing Science, as was always the case.

Cool.  Thanks.

Btw...  Syncing is still super slow.  Any more suggestions?

I agree. Blocks for one week are downloaded for an hour or even more.

You can say that again.
Why is it so slow?

If you don't intend to mine the coin and all you want is a wallet then I would suggest using clearing house.

I fell out with VIA not so long ago but things are starting to look up and so I'm back to try my hand once again. Just had a lot of good luck with XPM so I'm recharged and ready to ride the incoming VIA wave!!

Ok thanks.  Such a waste of tech.  No one's using Clearinghouse.  Can it do asset to asset trading or all assets have to go through viacoin?