´What's unethical about paying for services? If an exchange wants to list it and the payment amount is reasonable, why not?
Paying is OK, the
bidder contest is wrong.
Anyway, we need 3000 votes asap.
https://www.mintpal.com/votingDoesn't matter IMO. What's another exchange for NXT. mintpal is a good exchange but it would likely be low on the prominence level compared to Cryptsy, etc. with a low amount of volume.
Plus we would likely just be added tomorrow or something even though we have a coin beating us, unless some of the altcoins start putting in more money.