I’m not a core developer, and I’m not in PPC community for so many years like some folks you will find around here, so I will try my best to answer the questions that I think fit my knowledge.
- any ppc and xpm explorer that work?
- any ppc difficulty chart?
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/difficulty-btc-ltc-doge.html
- what’s peerassets? any working app?
A protocol that enables users to transact tokens using a “host-blockchain”. This protocol is full of interesting features which can be found in its white paper: PeerAssets - Whitepaper
Indicium is a project being built on top of PeerAssets.
- why is ppc not used?
(Own opinion) Because most people in the market don’t seem to care that much for the future of the coins they invest in. They see a “cool coin” project, fall for their promises, invest on it because “hey, they have a cool website with animated icons and colorful features”, and then after one or two years the project is either frozen or dead (perhaps because an even cooler project showed up, and oh my god did you see how cool is their website?). Plenty of promises, lots of marketing, but poor architecture and long-range aiming.
Peercoin may not be the strongest in marketing terms (we’re working on that), but it is certainly rock-solid in terms of architecture, purpose and long-term vision.
You can buy marketing, but if your idea is weak from the core, its hard to make it last even if you have lots of money raised from crowdfunding, investors or fraudulent ICOs.
- what’s the size of the peercoin community and user base?
Hard to tell, but since I started orbiting PPC community in the beginning of the year, the movement seems to have increased a lot on this forum, chats (Telegram/Peercoin.talk) and cryptocurrency communities.
- how do you see cryptos and blockchains going forward in 5 to 10years?
I personally see blockchain technology as I see internet. For me its clear that a paradigm shift this big will definitely and completely change the world in financial (and perhaps political) terms. The future looks as bright as it can get. Some coins will survive this process, lots will die. But the technology will definitely remain forever.