Since when did the exchanges dictate everything? EBT can do what it likes, and at least it still stands out from the crowd by standing against this joke of having to pay for votes.
you need exchanges for price discovery. You also need exchanges so that people can buy and sell. If the trend is to pay to get on an exchange so be it. If there is no exchange you guys will kill this coin.
Look at the coins at the top of these pay-to-votes. A load of pump-and-dump crapcoins, mostly. What do you think is going to happen with all these coins listed? Take a look at Cryptorush for a glimpse into the future of Cryptsy.
Is this really progress? A ton of crapcoins filling the pages of exchanges, with swathes of BTC going into the pockets of the exchanges, with them arbitrarily deciding when to list new coins so they can grab as much BTC as possible?
Anyone who thinks this is a good move for Altcoins is mistaken. The only winners out of this are the exchanges. Once they have their BTC they don't care if your coin ends up buried in the dust. They'll discard it with yesterday's trash and wait for the next coin to leach BTC from.
The price cryptsy is asking for votes is nothing short of extortion. You do *not* need to ask for that much BTC to gauge which coins have the most interest. In fact you don't need to pay for votes at all. All this does is kill the majority of the altcoin market and puts more control in the hands of the whales who can afford to buy votes then pump and dump their coin of choice.
We are moving towards altcoins being penny stocks.