Vertcoin, just like litecoin, should have had a pump in December. Almost every other altcoin did, even without a solid project like vertcoin. If you take close attention, you can see that vertcoin is not dumping ether, so there is still interest on it. The reason no other users are buying vertcoin is because bittrex is not accepting new users to join the platform, and vertcoin is not on binance (the largest growing exchange). This is why the vertcoin donation fund is so important. There is demand, people just can't buy vertcoin.

Please donate we're already halfway through: https://vertcoin.org/donate/

Also you can earn 100VTC, after donating only 1VTC, go here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/7nu1wl/exchange_listing_fund_lottery/?utm_source=reddit-android