I read through and I figured DGB is much faster than most other cryptocurrencies out there, it's quite surprising that it hasn’t performed better. At "1/2 way through its emission process" then it's safe to say DGB is one for the future. Just like STEEM, the digibyte team should focus on marketing and promotion so that more people can find out how good their blockchain is!
On the other hand, what happens if Bitcoin’s upgrade to the Lightning Network is successful, it could affect other cryptocurrencies, then people might decide to use BTC instead, as it is the most popular cryptocurrency in the industry. Overall , I think the DGB is really promising.
Clif High's web-bot is optimistic about LTC and it seems from Q4 2018 and 2019 we could see LTC go beyond it's limit. Let's see what happens.