There's this alt coin that i have been seeing in my news feed this past few weeks. Apparently, this alt coin which is more than 2 years old already will be added to the coinmarketcap.com in the next few days. Within this 2 years of its existence, the coin was only traded personally(online/meet-up) between sellers and buyers (mostly coming from the same region as i am) without having the coin added to any exchanges.
My question is, is it better for an alt coin to build its 'closed' community first before adding it to exchanges first for the global community to notice it?
I think that way it would be better to speculate the price of a coin.
A coin that have already established a user base and a value would show low fluctuation when added to an exchange as well there would be lesser chance for devs or any person to manipulate the price as we see in many of coins when they hit the market.