As of right now we have not raised funding for votes, because of volume the chances of being added are quite high. In regards to the casino we are partnering with yogg who runs a very transparent gambling site seen here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/seeking-partners-looking-for-altcoin-funds-to-expand-altdicenet-special-tc-301571There was talk over irc with one of our supporters that may have a poker site that could take XBC as well. As always though please use good judgement when gambling, in other words if you're up its probably a good time to stop
XBC will be on a large exchange sooner than we expect, once wallet drops tonight it opens the doors to many things. As for an online store I have been speaking with a few vendors that have the goods to make this happen. It may be a bit down the road though.
Regarding the IPO as you said that's highly unlikely, but it has a bright side of pulling together as a community to make things happen.
One thing I was thinking before bed last night was doing a raffle for everyone. Maybe with an iPad air as top prize and then subsequent prizes below that. Its just a thought and we could do a .5-1 XBC per entry into the raffle. The proceeds could go towards the development wallet and a portion to the prizes. Let me know if you all like this idea and I can get this going next week. Obviously transparency during the process would be a top concern for me, I may as well get it tattooed on my forehead because I only want the best coin and community behind xbc. Please leave your thoughts and ideas on this thread or hash it out on irc. Thank you all!
True about volume, as it's very possible the coin gets added automatically without tons of votes.
As for marketplaces, vendors are fine, but quite often crypto marketplaces look like bad eBay sites. You get oddball merchants with a handful of items that most people probably wouldn't buy from normally. I like how Noble Coin did it ... if you look at their marketplace, they first focus on gift cards. The Amazon cards are pretty much the equivalent to fiat, to many people, as you can buy just about anything at Amazon. They also sell (or will sell) gold/silver too. If you set up a marketplace with gift cards rather than relying on vendors, I think it would be more appealing. Getting the coin on coinpayments may be a priority for something like that to happen.
And the raffle idea is fine, although personally I'm not keen on entering raffles. I never win raffles, and am not an xbc whale with spares to give away. But if XBC whales offer up for the raffle, it could work.
I also guess I'm an optimist, as somehow I think the original dev and current team could work something out, especially in regard to the ipo money. I don't know all the details behind that though.