BTSX started trading on July 21st. It's average price during the Ether crowdsale was probably something like $0.025
would be happy as hell if we could reach that again but im kind of skeptical. what was once the average price, would now be a big achievement.
This year Dan has founded CNX, Brownies and Dan & Stan are also 2 of the 4 founders of IDentabit. I think he's also stated that he hasn't added to his BTS position for a looong time, even at these prices. So it's hard to discern how much faith they still have in BTS and their SuperDAC concept when they're diversifying so much elsewhere.
As a result, I think investors are fairly cautious and while BTS will rise on the 2.0 release it will probably have to start producing tangible results (new users and/or high BitAsset adoption) to get up to those levels again.
Edit: It's like before any of these businesses are profitable you're mostly investing in Dan & team's talent. It used to be that if you had $1000 you'd put it all in BTS to do that. Now if given the choice you might want to diversify between CNX, Brownies, IDBit and BTS. As a result BTS has suffered a bit.
You need to think bigger, Pinky.
It's not a fixed size pie. All of these projects cross-reinforce each other while pursuing different parts of a very big world population. Soon, people will expect DPOS 2 performance from every chain and dismiss old Model-T's like bitcoin and its alts. Identabit brings in people with totally different values and makes it easier to move into the freedom of BitShares after they take the training wheels off. Brownies reward the doers in this community and it's the doers that will make BitShares grow. Surprisingly only a few members of this forum have inquired about private investment in CNX directly, so that's only a theoretical worry. But keep in mind, the more resources CNX has the faster the pie I mentioned will grow. Right now our biggest anticipated source of revenue in the near term is driving business to BitShares.
Better to have people diversifying within the BitShares family where resources get funneled back in to developing new projects while offloading development costs from BitShares. Believe me, Bytemaster has multiple industry-disrupting plans queued up clear out into next year already. To do that we need to raise more funds and get more independent entrepreneurs working on them in parallel.
Meanwhile, I have literally bet the family farm on BitShares - mortgaged it to the hilt - all in. And most of Dan's net worth is similarly so invested. He hasn't added to his holdings because he has no other source of income (yet) to buy more BTS and the personal holdings he has are going to pay salaries.
The SuperDAC concept has grown into the BitShares Exchange Network (BEN). That makes it a super-duper-DAC because it is also serving as the backbone for many manned not just unmanned businesses. How many announcements and pages of posts have I devoted to Big BEN this summer? How can you say "It's hard to discern?"
You shouldn't speculate negatively on that which you know so little about.
If you want to speculate in a complete vacuum of knowledge, speculate positively. It will be better for all of us.