I see you've thought this through. Just a note: the danger point re. instability doesn't come from the second-tier exchanges adding QBC to their huge lineups. It comes when Cryptsy gets on board. There's almost a rite of passage: new alt gets listed, its price shoots up, the excitement fades, and the price goes on a long downward slide. I've seen it in the charts for several alts, not just Auroracoin.
As you know, exchange adds are iffy. But it would be a real sign if exchanges add QBC on their own without you being asked or even consulted...
If Cryptsy wants to add us I won't (wouldn't) stop them, it's because they'll want to get in on some volume. They've proven that they are secure and that's the most important. The price could possibly spike up a lot short term but there will be a better floor than any other nation-coin. Excitement will come and go for any altcoin but once it's faded for QBC and every investor and miner has made some money, the real purpose continues for Québec. The first investors and miners are a launch pad for any new crypto, after that I'll be able to continue with the main goal for QBC, adoption in Québec.
Yeah a few exchanges just wanted to add us right away but BITTREX has already proven they can handle some massive volume and they have a great interface. The other exchanges I'm not 100% sure on yet.
What other exchanges are interested in the coin besides Bittrex? I guess one simple rule of thumb you can use is, if it's dinkier than Bittrex, maybe pass. The exception being if it's a new exchange not open yet, but looks promising.
I have a question regarding valuation. I see you mentioning numbers like .002 per coin as a target. Something I've never quite gotten in crypto-land, perhaps since I am pretty new at this, is why mining rates seem to be mentioned as one of the primary reasons for a particular target. I get why it matters a lot, but it seems too often it's used as the main or only reason for a coin's price.
Air coin did that (and sort of fudged some things with their exchange financial model), which worked for like 2 weeks... then fell apart horribly. I guess I'm wondering why .002 is a target with 42 max coins, yet something like DarkCoin, with a max about half of that, is sitting at .0012ish? I'm not saying Quebecoin can't reach that target, especially short term with some hype... but just wondering if you are being overly optimistic there. The coin also won't get that price bounce before an airdrop, nor a fake market cap (still beats me why people invest based on the fake marketcap to begin with).
Europex , Xnigma and CCtrade - They are all "dinkier" than Bittrex, have less reputation so I'm currently reviewing them. I'd rather people not lose their coins on an uproven exchange, not saying that they are bad or anything.
The mining rate isn't the only thing determining price but if Vertcoin for example doubled their block reward tomorrow, would you still pay 1$/VTC, or since production rate has doubled, wouldn't you want to wait until it drops to a new lower equilibrium. The mining rate is related to the price in proportion to the time spent obtaining the coins versus their value and the value you get from mining other coins during the same timeframe as well. That's why websites like coinwarz exist. Usually it would indicate a gap between ease of mining and price, if enough people jump on it, the difficulty rises to reflect the price or the price drops to reflect difficulty after people start selling the coin in question. Depending on the popularity of the coin it could be one or the other or a mix.
I looked into Aircoin and they made some frivolous promises and failed to keep them. No one can guarantee a rising exchange rate, especially in the crypto world. Darkcoin on the other hand is way undervalued in my opinion. I've read through almost the entire Darkcoin thread here on bitcointalk and they've faced a few difficulties which can explain why their price is currently low. First of all a major part of the total supply was mined in the first 24 hours due to a block reward bug which means there are a few larger whales. After that two exchanges they were on were hacked which in turn led to major dumps of darkcoin which kept the price down and it hasn't recovered since. Once their main feature, Darksend, is out of beta, you can expect a big price rise.
In my opinion Vertcoin should in no way be priced higher than Darkcoin and yet it is. They haven't faced the same kind of problems though. Additionally Vertcoin produces way more daily coins that DRK which means they need a bigger influx of money to keep the price stable or rising. I think by the end of the year Darkcoin will be at a range of 0.005 or higher, with bitcoin having made some major progress price wise as well. For a 1000$ BTC you'd have a 5$ or more DRK (I wouldn't be surprised to see a 10$+ DRK either).
QBC will have no instamine on the other hand and in three months (90 days) time we'll have less than half of the coins of Darkcoin or Vertcoin in circulation. Approx 1.5 million including the IPO coins. I think Darkcoin with its great developer and new uniques features will definitely rise in price. The max number of coins currently doesn't really affect the prices, Vertcoin still has 84 million and with more than 2x daily production of Darkcoin.
Everything depends on the markets, but we'll have a solid floor price, a production rate which won't let people dump massive amounts and we'll be rarer than most other coins for quite a while. Take a look at the first nation coin in a while which doesn't seem like a scam, Isracoin. People are going crazy for it as you can see on coinmarketcap. People still like the concept of nation-coins if they're properly executed and the people behind them aren't scammers like greececoin and others. I'm not guaranteeing prices long term, but 0.002 is a very fair target. QBC has the premine for the population of Québec which means that the market cap will be inflated quite a bit and will attract attention as well because of it, but in 90 days at 0.002, even with a 1000$ Bitcoin, our "real" market cap would be only around 3 Million USD$. That's why I think I'm being prudent in my price range by saying 0.002.
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I am in the other side of Canada at the moment and just found out about this coin on the POLONIEX TROLLBOX. i want to invest a little bit in the IPO and also claim the bounty for first informative blog post? I will do the blog post in 3 days as I got some posts to do if that is o.k I can also host a big giveaway/promotion as well after the launch? I know you do not like Google translations but if there are any bounties for this for a MANDARIN CHINESE translation done by my husband who is a certified translator and interpreter into and from Mandarin Chinese and he also hates Google translate lol he would like to take that job on. 
, I'll put in another after 20 BTC or something, shouldn't be too long now that people have seen the potential