Each day I check this thread, I hope to see an announcement that some major exchange has started trading Waves. Is Sasha waiting for more features to be incorporated before the big marketing campaign? Waves should be "the best kept secret" no longer!
Why would a major exchange promote a competing exchange? The Waves Platform will eventually include being a Decentralized Asset Exchange as well at gateway for exchanging coins to fiat.
I'm surprised I read this argument so often.
They don't compete in any way. To me Poloniex is 95% about gambling and trading, not to just convert currency to currency.
Waves will offer Waves, BTC and various fiats. That's it. Poloniex offers tons of various alt coins that have no use at all aside from trading.
In my opinion this is the best way to see it. Because not everyone is a trader. Many future Waves users don't want to gamble or watch out for charts. They just want to use a certain currency.
Even though I'm a trader in a way, I can't even imagine a case where I was on holidays and had some foreign currency left. So I went to the bank, converted it to my currency and that's it.
I haven't put it on an exchange watching USD/Euro charts all day to win 2% in the conversion process.
Ask any of your friends or co workers what the current exchange price for whatever major currency is. They won't know. Mass adoption is exactly the opposite of Poloniex trading.
EDIT: What I mean is. My mom would be able to convert say Waves to USD in a GUI client. My mom converting the same on Poloniex? No way!
(Besides it would be a very awkward moment if I would see my mom asking noob questions in the trollbox.)
