TL:DR Version.

Litecoin has highest velocity, if that is true why has it crashed in price or is it the velocity that prevented it from completely dieing off.
PeerCoin has always held it's position in terms of coin market value and has a reasonably high velocity. I consider this a result of it's internal facility and merchant functionality.
If I was to put my money where my mouth was I would say that DVCs can offer UNO an internal merchent and function facility.

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Speaking with mark today we had a brief discussion about the low volume thing. It's an issue and it is something that needs to be talked about.

My first thought though, relativity.

Crypto currencies are complex scenario's. We have value of a thing compared to value of a thing related to any number of differant fiat values all shifting in relevance and relativity. It's not simple. Some people have a real eye for it, some people seem to see through it barely noticing the intangible amount of differential spinning wildly out of control. Some days I relish the opportunity to throw the maths around but mostly, its a headache.

This is relevant to the DVC project in that we need to find a solution to the problem, but first we must establish the reality of the problem. So often with crypto's I have fallen into the psychology of a problem.

There is something simple to consider though.

Coin A is very popular. It has a 1000 coin hard limit and is worth 1000 USD. Every day 100 USD of trading is done.

Coin B is very popular. It has a 10 000 coin hard limit and is worth 500 000 USD. Every day 400 USD of trading is done.

Which is better 'technically'. Which coin has a more profitable short/mid/long term outlook. Which coin do you have a secret affair with and which coin do you take home to your mother.

If we ignore fiat we get a very different conclusion than if we prioritize fiat, and what if we share the prioritization.

I have long stated that the metrics available to us are poor quality and that means our analysis are poor quality. Add to this the levels of relative relationships between fiat value, transactions costs, exchange costs, simplicity of purchasing, merchant facility and at the core the community of a project and it seems most people in the feild are at best taking educated guesses.

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So, lets talk about UNO and the velocity issue (low volume) if indeed that is what it is.

I'm using coinmarket because despite it being well behind in data and sometimes wrong I am comfortable with it.

Current details

$568,815 USD | 1,507 BTC value cap
$999 USD | 3BTC Velocity
192,361 UNO in circulation.

If I'm not mistaken that's 0.1756% velocity.

Bitcoin is at 0.365% and Litecoin at 2.19% and Doge at 1.274% and PeerCoin at 1.025% and NXT at 0.18%

If volume was a primary indicator of coin health I'd be wondering wtf happened to lite-coin or is it its crash in value that has facilitated such velocity?

NXT is currently hitting what I would call it's floor value and it's velocity is lower than I remember it being in the past though memory can't be used for analysis. i don't want to see NXT fall much further. It would shake my faith in the technology especially considering the recent success of so many Assets based on it.
PeerCoin has held it's position solidly in overall value since launch despite it not being relatively quiet coin marketing wise. It has quite a high velocity perhaps related to it's inbuilt DNS service thus internal merchant facility and function.
Bitcoin is doing its pump n dump breakout of the slump thing. Also its position as first to market gives it a significantly different analysis scenario.
Litecoin should be in death throws and yet it seems to most functionally used coin of all though we can't a certain what that use is be it trading, weed sales or p2p high fives.
Doge should be higher than it is, considering it's value as the internet high five mechanism. Though perhaps the behaviour of Bitcoin at the moment has everyone on their toes.

Does anybody know where we can find metrics to separate exchange specific volume amounts. Though in hind-site that would screw the details additionally since many merchants likely use exchanges for both conversion and storage due to simplicity. We are working with intuition and poor data, as well as subscribing to a et of metrics I don't feel justify the complexity of the crypto scene.

If I was to put my money where my mouth was I would say that DVCs can offer UNO an internal merchent and function facility.