As already mentioned dropping more BTC on buying votes on Mintpal is a waste of money. Why should we let them line their own pockets at our expense? Increasing bounties, giveaways or competitions, charitable donations would all be better than spending more on bribing Mintpal.
If the UTC guys want to spend $2000 then let them, don't forget they are desperate after what happened with the old exchange they were on. I am happy to wait 2 more days, chillax pandas. We actually have a good community and solid user base which isn't just full of the same 5 bagholders desperately propping up their thread in the hope they can break even. 50+ BTC volume in the last 24 hours on Cryptorush, the bigger exchanges cannot ignore this, it's up to them who wants the trading fees.
UTC is going to crash the second it hits Mintpal, calling it now.
I agree that it is not smart to end up in a bidding war but we must make sure we are first this Friday.
Maybe spent a little bit after UTC has been added just to discourage the other coins
Personally I suggest to concentrate all our efforts
on regular voting first, and
leave the BTCs as a last resort IF some other coin gives trouble.
PND has a nice lead on the #3 atm, so it may be a walk in the park for us..
