I was surprised about BCH as well.   That was sort of a reversal of the way they acted about it a couple months prior to that and I figured they would take the stance that people will get confused by what is the real Bitcoin.

The deeper you dig the more disheartening it becomes.   It is literally the most amazing platform that has just taken one long turn after another.   

We just have no clue how much is being controlled by a handful of people to be honest.   

Not that I'm necessarily looking for a total hand out but one of the greatest successes of TRON was airdrops and airdrops are getting a lot of attention on EOS.  Also the Byteball airdrop on here is exciting even though the bot is down right now.  

Steemit INC could have solved the distribution issue partially by doing a series of airdrops for people with certain reputations and at least 500 SP and a certain level of activity.   That would have pushed unreal demand and excitement and it would have been like a party on here again.   But Steemit INC has secured their future and they can play video games for the next 10 years so congrats to them.   

They have just screwed up so many times in my mind but we have learned a lot about governance and what is possible with this chain.

Yeah,  It is fluff in a lot of ways but we can expect they will at least pick some of those projects to add eventually.

Totally not influencing the prices at all...

It is hard to know exactly how all the money flows but there are a lot of accounts they waterfall it down to.   It might be for some type of liquidity operations but who knows.   They might have to cash out to pay themselves.  

I know I bring this stuff to people's attention but ultimately even if @ned is paying himself $1 Million / month I don't feel like there is anything wrong with it.   They set the system up and we are still here messing around whether it becomes a total time trap or something that earns some money is yet to be seen in the long run.

they are a company. It there own stake. Steem should've had a better distribution system  oh well. 
I hope the selling they are doing is going to fund SMT development and/or dex building

Well Ethereum Classic is officially getting added in the next couple of months.  They announced that a couple of weeks ago.   These 5 they are exploring so they may or may not be added in the future.   

I'm also suprised they don't just give in and list Ripple as well.  A lot of people who are newer to the space and suddenly became attracted to Ripple are pretty upset.   Especially since there were all those rumors about Ripple that went back to January and someone created that convincing fake video where Ripple was integrated into the platform.  LOL 

I never had any luck with the Brave browser on Android or Linux and never ended up getting free coins in any of the airdrops.   Plus I never thought the Basic Attention Token made complete sense to me.   

With Cardano and Stellar I have some just to have a position but I'm not in love with those projects.   

And with 0x I sort of tune out in a way when someone is building on the Ethereum platform and saying how it is going to do all this and that.   I have heard it before and Ethereum isn't capable of all that at this point.  

STEEM is like the greatest thing and the saddest story.   Like it is so amazing but sometimes I just look at the ground and take a deep breath and shake my head.    

The times when I really am blown away by what the community has done is when I see like 50 or 100 or more people getting together in some of these other countries for a meetup to talk about STEEM.   It is pretty amazing and they are certainly excited about it.   

I also think that Byteball was extremely smart for leveraging the STEEM community to do their airdrop.   It is sort of ridiculous in a way that we have never got airdrops on here from Steemit INC in a lot of ways but they secured their future.  They can play video games at the office for the next 10 years if they want to.

It is strange because you would think he wouldn't take side on some of the stuff and just collect all the fees on the transactions.   I can get why they might not add something like IOTA since there have been issues with that in some respects.   And I get why they would take a stance on Ripple.

Possibly.  I think everyone is a little confused by their decisions on adding new coins.

Not a single coin on this list makes any sense to me.