I hold about 2mil VOOT. I am willing to invest a percentage of that into the exchange for trading, as well as donate to the new competant devs, as well as invest into SMOKE team to manage the exchange. With that said, I'd much prefer we elect a collection of individuals to manage it. Not that I don't trust SMOKE, but centralizing the decentralized is sort of...wrong. We need power in the hands of a few trusted individuals rather than 1 entity.
And those individuals should not hide behind the anonymity of a nick...