Poloniex goes for profit and profit alone. I don't blame them, that's their job. Golem is at the moment not much of a risk, speculation-wise: right now, all golem is is a bunch of tokens without actual usability. Development seems to run slow but steady, so it is not dead either, which makes it perfect for daytrading.

We should not expect to be added to poloniex anytime soon or at all. The organisational structure of XEL is too "informal", I guess. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with it being the way it is. But interestingly enough, at the moment, most bigger projects are focussed on few known personalities. I don't really know what to make of it, since it sounds like an antithesis to the whole being-decentralized-thing, but maybe I'm wrong (and, to be honest, XEL is not that decentralized in that regard. We lean heavily on few coders).

Once the Elastic network is live, should we make some kind of contest, to spread awareness? Something like the travelling salesman problem*, where participants have to exclusively use the Elastic Network to solve a given problem and the one getting the best results wins?

If yes, what does he_she win? BTC? XEL?


*I'm still thinking about making the Elastic Network play chess against itself. Or Go, or tic-tac-toe or whatever