Greetings everyone.
As many of you agree waves platform is one of the biggest cryptocurrency projects right now. Its ICO was a huge success and collected 30,000 BTCs (around $22 M with the current BTC price), and when its features are implemented there's potential for amazing price pumps.
After the end of ICO bittrex and a few other exchanges added waves soon and have since been trading it. What's strange, is that poloniex doesn't list waves, despite countless requests from the waves community and their users. Many people thought they would do it when waves releases full nodes, but the nodes have been released recently, and still no poloniex!
Sasha Ivanov, waves platform CEO, has repeatedly been asked about this, and his answer (in short) was that both waves team and polo guys wanted to list waves there, and the devs gave them whatever they gave bittrex, but they suddenly decided not to list waves and they never explained why, so we don't know what they are thinking.
So, really, what can it be? As always, the community came up with some great conspiracy theories.
- The evil poloniex theory:
Poloniex doesn't want to add waves, because it's not to their benefit. The reason? Some say they ask for %5 of available supply from every coin they list, so that they can manipulate markets, and waves doesn't accept this. Others say they are afraid of the waves platform decentralized exchange feature, which, if delivers properly, makes exchanges like polo obsolete.
- The evil bittrex theory:
Bittrex asks for exclusive rights to list waves, and they have some secret deal with the devs, not to list it on polo. IMHO, although waves has been the top trading crypto in bittrex most of the time, but this doesn't make sense because there are other exchanges that list waves, and it's not exclusive to trex.
- The evil Sasha theory:
The dev team don't want polo to add their crypto, for price manipulation purposes or something, and they have deals behind the curtain to add it when the timing is right. Also, there's a more stupid version of this conspiracy theory, which says polo doesn't add waves because Sasha was rude to polo, and they are punishing him (lol).------------------------------------------------
IMHO it's all about poloniex! There's definitely something wrong with what they are doing! What the hell? You're the exchange with the most trade volume, you don't add one of the most well-known cryptocurrencies in spite of a thousand add requests, and you don't even care enough to explain why? Doesn't the community at least deserve a f***ing explanation of some sort? Aren't we the people who are giving you the highest trade volume? Can't we just stop that if we sense deceit in your actions?
All in all, what's your opinion guys?