I think the same. In this situation it's good for Monero to buy the 2nd place. IMO it's great benefit for any coin to be added to hitbtc. So it's better for BCN to be added to hitbtc asap .
I am sure that there are a lot of people who are interested in BCN and we don't need to buy the place.
If you are sure your coin is the coin of the future and you want to spend money for good you shouldn't buy any places you'd better to fund different projects to make your coin better, to upgrade it,
As for Monero, I can only say that XMR developer team is doing all their might in promoting their coin everywhere instead of spending their time trying to improve its code.
XMR always gossips about other coins cons and don't see their own cons. I wish they spend their time sensibly cause day after day I begin to think their are nonprofessionals