I don't see having to stumble upon a thread within an extremely limited window of time in order to get to buy some Mastercoins as elegant at all, on the contrary it seemed like the kind of rush rush hurry hurry you'll miss the deal if you don't buy right now hustle that hustlers and scammers like to use to get people off balance to get them to buy quick before really thinking about it or even getting to thoroughly investigate what it even is. By the time word got out that there was a new altcoin being launched but not in the altcoin part of the forums, it was too late to buy in. Its just like people who launch an alt on some obscure forum elsewhere, but you did it right here, clever trick but maybe just as sleazy since having a username on here meant you could as easily have put also an announcement in the altcoins section.

If there is no exchange yet for protoshares and you want to invest in protoshares maybe investing in a project aimed at creating / running an exchange for it would be a logical starting-point

If there is an exchange it is on then what is the problem, just put an offer on the exchange? Or would you not consider that an ivnestment into the coin/ecosystem?

-MarkM-