@cneeper said in Adding Siacoin to exchanges:
Similar to traditional stock exchanges, digital currency exchanges are all independently owned and operated. Each exchange is run as a for-profit business, has some sort of business plan, and makes the decision to trade in any particular digital asset (like Sia) according to their own desires and the desires of the people trading on that exchange. If you're a member of an exchange that does not currently trade in a digital asset you'd like to trade in, then you can contact your exchange using whatever means they provide to you, and politely request that they offer your digital asset of choice. If you and enough other people manage are interested in the same digital asset, then the owners/operators of the exchange may decide to add it. But, since exchanges are for-profit businesses and it costs the exchange money to add each digital asset (in the form of programmers to add the asset and update the exchange's website, resources to provide on-going support for the asset, etc), the exchange needs to have enough people interested in a particular digital asset in order to make it profitable to the exchange.
Sia's developers and the developers of other digital currencies are NOT in charge of adding any digital currencies to an exchange. The devs have absolutely no say in the matter. It's totally up to the owners of each exchange. I'm sure the devs are quite happy to assist an exchange if needed, but they can't make an exchange add a digital currency.
Bottom line is that if you want to trade in Sia and your favorite exchange doesn't currently trade in it, then you need to contact your exchange and ask them nicely to add it. If you and enough others want to trade in Sia, then perhaps your exchange will consider eventually adding it. But there's no guarantee and it won't happen overnight.
I hope this clears the matter up a bit.
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