Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post

IOW, since all of these coins start (afaik) with a very low value, well, even in a random-walk scenario, some are going to end up as "successes" and others are not going to go anywhere. And, interestingly, that scenario is fairly consistent with the performance of the family of coins as a whole.
Hmm, now I think of it, that's not really what seems to be happening. It's more like there's a bunch of coins, and every once in a while one of them gets a kick and starts going up. The rest just seem to sit there doing nothing. Seems more consistent with the market encouragement/manipulation theory actually.