Just some miscellaneous comments after having read through the whole thread:

@turtle: no, they are not anonymous. Both Hex and Saddam are easily identifiable because they are the major shareholders of Cryptopia which is a publicly registered New Zealand corporation.

@OBAViJEST: actually, I have to disagree with you: I do recall Hex and Saddam talking about coding DOT while on acid. Personally, I find that impressive, and a reason to invest, but there have been discussions of drugs other than weed.

As far as funding, running an exchange is not that expensive. Hex and saddam are largely self-funded. The fact that there aren't massive amounts of paid staff is not a problem (in my never humble opinion of course).

As far as dead coins, disabling them would make it harder to launch a revival. Caveat emptor in my opinion. If someone is planning to start moving a chain again, they might want a deposit address to test or a withdraw queued up.

And it's strange to me that the suggestion is merely to "disable" deposits (not display deposit address) and withdraws (when, again, there could be legitimate reasons for wanting it queued) and no call for banning the trading. Cryptopia does make an effort to select decent coins to list, and avoids delisting them, so, yeah, if a coin dies after it gets listed, it'll probably stick around for a while. I don't think that's a bad thing.

It's hilarious to me this all started from Prototanium. I thought that was a strange idea when I saw it being pumped. If people want UNO, why not buy UNO? Why buy testnet? It's worse than a clonecoin. But whatever, it was popular for a moment and people chose to buy it. And then they complain when it breaks rather than fixing it.

It is not the exchange's responsibility to fix or support the coins.

And, yes, if you piss off Hex and Saddam you're going to have a bad time. Just like if you piss off the-Powers-that-Be at any site you're going to have a bad time. They're just more open and honest about it. I rather like it. I'm sure Cryptopia isn't for everyone, but again, I'm glad to have found a home there.

I'm quite confident they will outlast Cryptsy, not that that is a difficult achievement.