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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
by
aminorex
on 22/05/2014, 23:05:24 UTC
Why is MRO only on 1 exchange? Is that on  purpose (like Mastercoin) or do they have inadequate leadership. Its not hard to get listed on multiple exchanges.

A direct question I cannot resist.

Three reasons:  

(1) It is new.  Listed this week.  Everything in the universe takes non-zero time.

(2) Like NXT which also took a long time to get listings MRO uses a different tech, different code-base.  It is much more work to add.  Now that the volume is significant, there is an actual motivation to add it.  

(3)  Software is less mature as well, which means inconvient bugs and work-arounds prevail until stability is on par with much more mature coins.

There are actually 3 exchanges, but the others are much more marginal than poloniex.com, which to my taste is already far too marginal.  I am conservative that way, because of the history of BTC exchanges.  But to their credit they have been handling it extremely well, at least for MRO.