I've seen some interest building at mcxNOW as well. I did contact the site owner there and received no response...but the chat admins seem to be aware of it. You'd be amazed how few people have even heard of Megacoin over there despite MNC being quite active at mcxNOW and typically having a lower market cap. They link to the market cap charts all the time. I'll be honest...mcxNOW would be my first choice of all the exchanges to add Megacoin. Deposits earn interest, there are traders with deep pockets, etc. It's rare to see 25 sell tiers in a row over there valued at a couple cents each. It's a solid exchange and if they had Megacoin, it would probably be the only place I traded.
Like I said...I want to make sure they're all aware of it...but the silver lining is that as long as Megacoin is only traded on Cryptsy the price will be held down (and therefore, the mining difficulty as well.) We can mine more and buy for less until the bigger exchanges realize the profit they're missing out on by not adding it.
I think they're being overly cautious about what they add to maintain a "premium" image and not end up an altcoin dumping ground/graveyard like Cryptsy has become. It's a smart play...but they're losing out on a lot of profit already by holding off on Megacoin. Last I looked, it was the highest volume currency on Cryptsy. It's unfortunate that it's extremely difficult to buy larger quantities over there due to the microtrades, autosells, bots, etc -- it's not a great exchange for high-volume trading.
It seems that the only person in charge of adding coins there is RealSolid, and he unfortunately seems adamantly against Megacoin. I gave him a very detailed rundown of all the unique features of MEC, including those slated for the future, including volume stats from Cryptsy, market cap numbers, and a slew of other information and the only response I got back was that Megacoin was just another crap clone that he has no intention of adding to the exchange. He claims he won't even begin to consider it until MEC is in the top 5 market cap. :/
I am beginning to agree that perhaps we should shift our focus from btc-e to mcxNOW. I think with the way they are paying out interest and with their mcxFEE share system, this likely might be the biggest exchange in the weeks and months to come and if we can get Megacoin established there early this could be a huge boost.
Obviously a comment he made out of ignorance...but with all of the junk out there I'm sure he lumps a lot of it together. Also, it's important to him that everything traded there is considered "special" and "premium" -- it makes sense to wait until the market cap climbs and stabilizes so mcxNOW can maintain this "selective" image.
Unfortunately, it's difficult for a currency to move much higher up the market cap list when the only major exchange trading it is Cryptsy. I think patience is key here...and once mcxNOW realizes they're losing a ton of money but failing to do their research...they'll probably add it.
For now I think we just keep grinding it out. Like I said...as soon as Megacoin hits an exchange with real volume it's going to triple in value overnight. That's great...but it also means the mining difficult will jump up accordingly. We're getting close to the next reward reduction -- let's see what happens after that.